Experts Call for Ethical Grounding of AI to Prevent Manipulation in 2024 Elections
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Concerns about AI interfering with 2024 elections are valid, but not unprecedented as seen with 1975 Asilomar Conference on recombinant DNA. However, Asilomar's attempt to regulate biotech was wrong, just as calls to regulate AI are wrong today.
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The challenges of AI and 2024 elections are ethical, not regulatory. We've made a Faustian bargain with AI that will irreversibly impact humankind if underlying science behind it is not challenged.
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AI solves mathematical problems, not ethical ones. It can be used to manipulate elections by engineering voting behavior of those previously off the radar.
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Automated technology like AI has no innate ethics or conscience. It focuses narrowly on processing data without any sense of meaning or "know why."
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We need to disrupt the science behind AI and ground it in an understanding of human behavior that goes beyond just physics and chemistry. Calls for regulation will not prevent aberrant applications.