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Jessie Wilder's avatar

People seem to be talking about AI as only a tech issue. I believe we need to be having conversations around policies that are needed to address the environmental, economic and ethical issues like who is going to benefit from this technology. No one is talking about how profits from AI will be distributed even though it is using data from the internet that we all had input into and our taxes paid for internet development. Data centers use a tremendous amount of power and huge amounts of water for cooling. When it comes down to who gets the water during droughts, who wins? The people living in the area or the data centers. Like so many things, we have put the cart before the horse. And who wants to live across the street from one of these? https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Ftse2.mm.bing.net%2Fth%3Fid%3DOIP.5UO5r1kmYrgZy9do3A4R1AHaD4%26pid%3DApi&f=1&ipt=c41bfdea166c62db151a71d036db1569ef13d6d58cb54a16d502f06986d34834&ipo=images

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Katy Manley's avatar

When AI sends back incorrect data or presents something as fact (when it isn’t) it is called “hallucination.” You can avoid this by prompting AI “if you don’t have access to that information, please say so” or something like that.

I work in IT so AI is my reality. More than a fear of AI itself, I am afraid of a society that takes everything they read or hear as truth. Critical thinking, fact-checking, and ethical use are the keystones to using AI.

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