https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2023/12/ai-and-trust.html
"I trusted a lot today. I trusted my phone to wake me on time. I trusted Uber
to arrange a taxi for me, and the driver to get me to the airport safely. I
trusted thousands of other drivers on the road not to ram my car on the way. At
the airport, I trusted ticket agents and maintenance engineers and everyone
else who keeps airlines operating. And the pilot of the plane I flew in. And
thousands of other people at the airport and on the plane, any of which could
have attacked me. And all the people that prepared and served my breakfast, and
the entire food supply chain—any of them could have poisoned me. When I landed
here, I trusted thousands more people: at the airport, on the road, in this
building, in this room. And that was all before 10:30 this morning.
Trust is essential to society. Humans as a species are trusting. We are all
sitting here, mostly strangers, confident that nobody will attack us. If we
were a roomful of chimpanzees, this would be impossible. We trust many
thousands of times a day. Society can’t function without it. And that we don’t
even think about it is a measure of how well it all works.
In this talk, I am going to make several arguments. One, that there are two
different kinds of trust—interpersonal trust and social trust—and that we
regularly confuse them. Two, that the confusion will increase with artificial
intelligence. We will make a fundamental category error. We will think of AIs
as friends when they’re really just services. Three, that the corporations
controlling AI systems will take advantage of our confusion to take advantage
of us. They will not be trustworthy. And four, that it is the role of
government to create trust in society. And therefore, it is their role to
create an environment for trustworthy AI. And that means regulation. Not
regulating AI, but regulating the organizations that control and use AI."
Via Violet Blue’s
Cybersecurity Roundup: December 5, 2023
https://www.patreon.com/posts/cybersecurity-5-94115346
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
