Can you trust AI? Here's why you shouldn't

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When Alexa responds in this way, its obvious that it is putting its developers interests ahead of yours..

It doesnt take much extrapolation from todays technologies to envision AIs that will plan trips for you, negotiate on your behalf or act as therapists and life coaches...

As a security expert and data scientist, we believe that people who come to rely on these AIs will have to trust them implicitly to navigate daily life..

But you dont know how the AIs are configured: how theyve been trained, what information theyve been given, and what instructions theyve been commanded to follow..

The European Unions proposed AI Act takes some important steps, requiring transparency about the data used to train AI models, mitigation for potential bias, disclosure of foreseeable risks and reporting on industry standard tests...