This week I was reading a study from the University of Coruña, Spain, where he talks about the benefits and risks of Artificial Intelligence, (AI), which in many ways is improving our living conditions, and is expected to bring great benefits. in the future (Trigo-Guedes, 2019), however, the risks and concerns that it entails cannot be ignored.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is currently capable of solving large-scale problems in fields such as medicine, the environment, the economy or education. For example, in medicine, the use of AI can help assist medical professionals in making decisions, administering medications, monitoring patients’ conditions, and even diagnosing diseases that are difficult to identify.
The Study brings us closer to the European vision and strategy about artificial intelligence, this puts the human being at the center of the development of AI as its main objective, in addition, it aims to strengthen the confidence of citizens in digital development, as well as How to create a competitive advantage for European Artificial Intelligence (AI) companies. For this, a series of requirements that these systems must meet are explained: Human intervention and supervision. AI systems must act as facilitators of an equitable society, supporting human intervention and fundamental rights, without diminishing or limiting human autonomy. Technical strength and security, that is, these systems require that the algorithms be sufficiently secure, reliable and robust, to respond to failures or inconsistencies during all phases of their life cycle, as well as erroneous results. Privacy and data protection since it is necessary to guarantee privacy and data protection in all phases of the life cycle of the AI system, that people have full control over their data and that it is not used to harm or discriminate against them. It is like a decalogue where, in addition to talking about Transparency, it is required that AI systems must record and document the decisions made by the systems. Interested and affected parties should be communicated about the capabilities and limitations of the AI system in question. It also includes the topic of Diversity, and non-discrimination and equity.
I was talking with Roberto Cippitani, a lawyer from the European Union, and an expert in private law and personal data protection issues, and I asked him for his opinion, for example, about the most recent AI model, the GPT Chat, and he told me that it does not comply with the European rules for the protection of personal data, since it collects various types of data, and does not ask for any consent, and is also transferring it outside the EU to the US, so for example Italy, already prohibited the use of this ChatGPT, it will be only the beginning, to put a limit to this type of technology and vindicate the fundamental Human Rights of honor, privacy, security and protection in terms of at least personal data of users.
The scientist Alan Turing is considered the father of Artificial Intelligence, due to the publication in 1950 of his article Computing Machinery and Intelligence, I wonder if he could suddenly see by some supernatural effect, the advances of Artificial Intelligence (AI), Would you agree on how this dangerous, delicate and important tool for the development of humanity is being handled?’