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There's a strong push-back against AI regulation within some quarters. Predictably, the issue seems to have split along polarized political lines. With right-wing leaning people not favoring regulation. They see themselves as 'Accelerationist' and those with concerns about AI as 'Doomers'.
Meanwhile the unaddressed problems mount. AI can already deceive us, even when we design it not to do so, and we don't why.
The most likely explanation is that we keep acting like AI has intelligence and intent when describing the defects. AI doesn't deceive, it returns inaccurate responses. That is because it is programmed to return answers like people do, and deceptions were included in the training data.
Perhaps, but the researchers say the people who developed the AI don't know the mechanism whereby this happens.
That's because they have also fallen into the "intelligence" pitfall.
No one knows why any of those DNNs work, that's not exactly new