AI: Toy for the rich or tool for equality? | DW Business
Summary
TLDRThe transcript discusses AI fairness and access, highlighting perspectives from a Ugandan lawyer seeking to leverage AI to provide legal services to underserved communities, an AI ethics leader from a major tech company on regulating AI responsibility, and an artist using AI art to raise awareness about biodiversity and climate change.
Takeaways
- AI's benefits should be equally accessible globally, not just limited to wealthier nations.
- Regulating company/individual behavior around AI is key - AI itself simply enables what we program it to do.
- Transparent and auditable AI models can mitigate issues like biases and fake outputs.
- Sustainability and purpose should be central when developing AI models and applications.
- AI art can play a meaningful role in education, research and prompting urgent climate action.
Q & A
What perspective does Gerald the Ugandan lawyer provide on AI fairness?
-He argues the benefits of new tech like AI should be as available in poorer nations as wealthier ones - fairness is ensuring access regardless of geography.
How does the AI ethics leader suggest governments approach regulating AI systems?
-She argues AI itself does not require isolated regulation - rather we need to govern company/individual behavior surrounding AI to uphold existing laws and ethical norms.
How can blockchain technology help address issues with AI models?
-Blockchain enables tracking all data in/out of models. If biases/errors emerge, version control lets you audit what happened and revert to a previous unbiased state.
What is the purpose of the AI art museum project announced at the forum?
-To create an open-source AI model for preserving and understanding nature's intelligence, helping education and research around AI's connection to the urgent climate crisis.
Outlines
Perspectives on AI's Impact and Regulation
This paragraph covers perspectives from a lawyer, Gerald Abila, on how to ensure AI benefits people equally across geographic regions. He advocates for guard rails to prevent perpetuating inequality and believes AI can help increase access to justice. He shares how his organization, Barefoot Law, has used technology to help nearly 1 million people in Africa and aims to help 50 million more by 2030 using their AI lawyer Winnie.
Ensuring Accuracy and Transparency in AI
This paragraph discusses the problem of inaccuracy and lack of transparency in AI models, with 20% producing fakes. Raluca Manolache of blockchain company Calabs explains their solution to audit AI models and track their data inputs and outputs. This transparency allows going back to previous versions if errors emerge. Manolache acknowledges blockchain has been used by bad actors but argues its accountability makes AI more trustworthy long-term.
Using AI Responsibly to Understand Nature
This paragraph covers artist Refik Anadol's AI installation to safeguard biodiversity. He aims to connect humans, technology, and nature by using AI to remember and preserve nature's intelligence. He shares how the project minimizes its energy use through Google Cloud and educates people on AI's purpose beyond pixels through an AI art museum called Dataland.
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Keywords
π‘AI regulation
π‘AI transparency
π‘AI accountability
π‘AI auditing
π‘AI harms
π‘AI opportunities
π‘Inclusive AI
π‘Nature-inspired AI
π‘Responsible AI
π‘AI for social good
Highlights
AI benefits should be available globally, not just in wealthy nations.
Barefoot Law has used technology to provide legal services to almost 1 million people in Africa.
Barefoot Law aims to reach 50 million people across Africa by 2030 using AI.
Existing laws like privacy and human rights already apply to AI systems.
The EU AI Act focuses on regulating company and government behavior around AI.
Businesses need to innovate with AI responsibly without harming society.
AI is becoming more prominent at the World Economic Forum.
Some companies are promoting ethical and responsible AI.
Calabs uses blockchain to audit AI models and improve transparency.
Blockchain can help track what data goes into AI models.
Artist Rafik Anadol uses AI art to showcase nature's intelligence.
Anadol's project uses renewable energy and limited data for sustainability.
The project aims to educate and preserve biodiversity data.
Anadol is creating an open source AI model focused on nature.
Experts warn we are nearing an irreversible point of climate damage.
Transcripts
can we trust Ai and its creators I'm Ben
fulan I'm at the world economic Forum in
Switzerland to find out if artificial
intelligence is set to become a toy for
the rich or a tool for equality take a
look at this everchanging AI based
artwork what's it good for though I'll
get to its creator in a moment and talk
to him first let's talk about the
fairness of AI with a loyer Gerald ABA
is from Uganda Rich nations are driving
Technologies like AI at the moment where
does that lead lowincome countries I
guess uh when it comes to new
technologies we should ensure as
Humanity that the benefits be us all
regardless of geographical location the
benefits of new technologies should be
as prevalent in the global South as they
are in the global North and this is what
I consider fairness how how do we do
that I mean it's a a question of
investment isn't it I think it goes
beyond investment it's a question of
will what do we intend to achieve as
Humanity professor profess Claus in his
opening remarks today spoke about
building guard rails when it comes to
the new technologies that we're facing
and I think these guard rails for us
should be guard rails that prevent
against perpetuating inequalities that
we've already experienced as a society
as Humanity while at the same time
amplifying the benefits to make sure we
all achieve uh the potential development
that these new technologies give us how
many people have you managed to help
through leveraging technology in your
work as a lawyer and how many more
people do you hope to help in the 10
years Barefoot law has been operating
we've uh reached close to a million
people and we hope to reach 50 million
people across Africa by 2030 is AI going
to change that yes we've uh been very
interested in new technology from the
founding of barefoot law and we've
invested a lot of time and resources in
developing a new technology that we call
Winnie which is an AI lawyer that
improves on our efficiency and we hope
with the breakthroughs that we're
experiencing now we're able to
amplify these benefits Gerald thank you
very much great talking to you thank you
it's been a
pleasure our lawyer says it's all about
access to Justice especially in remote
areas AI will boost that by answering
simple questions
quickly for more on regulating
artificial intelligence Ivana bti is
Chief AI governance officer at the tech
giant whpr this is a runaway technology
and Regulators are playing catchup will
they keep up with this technology it's a
fantastic question and I think uh the
answer is in the first place AI is
already regulated in the sense that AI
does not exist in isolation privacy laws
human rights legislation consumer
legislation non-discrimination laws they
already apply to artificial int
intelligence so what is missing what's
missing is regulating the behavior of
companies of individuals around
artificial intelligence this is for
example what the European AI Act is
about which is a risk based legislation
and says if an AI is likely to cause
risks to people then it has to be
regulated in a stronger way now the real
issue here is first of all to avoid
thinking that AI is an excuse to really
breach existing regulation and second is
to really build on this alignment that
we have right now that we're seeing here
in Davis between government private
sector saying yes we need some
regulation in place but the regulation
is really about regulating the behavior
it's not regulating AI is really about
regulating the behavior of companies and
business and governments around
artificial intelligence what could be
the impact though on businesses could
this put the breakes on well I think um
businesses need to innov
and it's really really important it
means that the companies need to say
okay how do I innovate and transform
with they ey but how do I do that in a
way that is not detrimental to society
it's not detrimental to consumers in a
way that enhances the Dignity of human
beings and in a way that does not put
people at risk this is really really
important we have to govern change we
are not going to have change just to be
done to us and it's B businesses are
ready to take this responsibilities I
want to see the conversations really
moving forward on this not just in
business in government but also with
civil society well AI was just a
buzzword here in Davos last year this
year take a walk down the prominade and
it's in almost every shop window where
the most influential companies in the
world have set up some are selling good
AI or responsible AI what about accurate
AI
Ral manoha is CEO of calabs a blockchain
company that claims to have found a
solution to ai's accuracy problems and
tendency to produce fakes which is at
what a 20% uh rate according to experts
I believe yeah that's about right I mean
I don't know what exactly the percentage
is but you know even if you look at like
recent media stories and copyright
information being found within AI models
there's clearly been a problem about AI
being a bit of a black box and what
we're trying to do is hey how do we take
something that's opaque and make it
transparent so how are you making it
better uh the way to do it is to use
what blockchain has always been great
about which is being zero trust and an
excellent governance layer so what we're
able to do is enable companies to
completely track what data is going in
and out of their models and if a
hallucination or bias does occur with
one click you can do what you can do
with every other software which is you
have Version Control so if you're like
hey my model was working 4 days ago but
suddenly it's saying crazy things you
click a button it goes back to what it
looked like four days ago and you can
audit exactly what happened in the
background so like a legion system um so
when people hear blockchain though many
also know that criminals use it that
it's used uh by states that may not be
Democratic yeah of course I mean look
technolog is Like a Knife right you can
use it to like chop wood or stab someone
I mean the internet in its early days
was just porn and gambling I mean every
technology like especially in its early
stages tends to attract a lot of Bad
actors but if you actually think about
it blockchain is one of the most
evocative Technologies out there I think
the big Enterprise leap and using it to
solve our biggest problems like auditing
AI hasn't happened yet but it's going to
happen I mean the internet started like
in the' 60s or 70s with arpa right and
it was only till like the 2000
when it really took off I think now
we're seeing like a convergence of
Technologies and like with any
technology you know there's Bad actors
but they get weeded out and I I think
that's a good thing what happens though
when you get the technology so good and
it falls into the wrong
hands this is this is why transparency
and auditability are really really
important right like going back to my
previous analogy like even with the
internet right we do a lot of banking
Finance commercial activity on the
internet there's a bunch of hackers out
there but as the internet has developed
further and further it's more auditable
it's more trustworthy and that's the
same thing that's going to happen I mean
all we are trying to do is make sure
that hey instead of it being a hard
Landing let it be a bit of a soft
Landing artist rafik anadol is here to
show me his AI installation which is all
about safeguarding biodiversity tell us
how yes so we are here in World economy
forum announc ing our next ambitious
project large nature model and in the
current debates in AI research and AI
practicing is is sometimes missing the
connection with humans us and technology
and the nature I do believe nature is
the most intelligent thing we have and I
think it's time to use this technology
to remember to understand and preserve
um so we are here showcasing how to
preserve data of nature in collaboration
with ethical resource of data like
cultural archives of simonian initial
History Museum and Beyond and also use
um sustainable Computing to create a
meaningful and personal AI model because
I mean this is a lot of data it needs a
lot of computing power and alone this
installation uses a lot of energy I'm
sure yes so this installation is um
required a lot of thinking we only use
50 million data sets to understand the
the promise then we decid to extend our
data set but I'm happy to say that we
made a software that also exactly tells
us how much compute power we are using
for each steps and we can use renewable
energy thanks to Google Cloud custom
software developments and we also create
lots of new tools to understand having
an awareness um especially at a time
that experts here are saying we're
reaching the point of no return
absolutely it's just literally a very
important time and and by the way one of
the reason we are announcing our Museum
of AI Arts called datal land is
literally to take attention and educate
and create a research around the medium
of AI and its Arts I do believe we need
to take attention going Beyond just
shiny pixels or technology but deep dive
into the purpose of AI it's also this is
a virtual Museum isn't it yes but are
you documenting what's disappearing from
the planet or are you creating some sort
of fantasy world here no it's a
completely functional research it is
using science-based data it's not about
hallucinating information it is about
not about human intellect it's about
natural intelligence so we are trying to
Capt
what we have what we lost and try to
explain this in a one AI model open
source free for Humanity so it will help
for Education research or a museum
activity for art making and so it's the
hope that will make that impact refi
canol thank you very much great talking
to you inspiring stuff thank you so
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