AI’s ethical issues are exacerbated by increasing scale

Tiernan Ray says AI has always carried the risk of abuses such as bias. The increasing scale of the field, however, in terms of the size of neural network models, the escaping compute budget, and the proliferation of generated content such as fake faces and fake writing, has magnified the ethical issues. Problems can’t simply be engineered-away: at some point, society must re-examine the social contract. Read more: https://zd.net/3xsRj6e