Should we worry about AI and algorithms in government? | Lyria Bennett Moses | TEDxSydneySalon

As confidence in - and the proliferation of - machine learning technologies, algorithms and AI grows, governments around the world are increasingly relying on them to make decisions. Decisions about how to allocate resources, in the justice system and of course, in surveillance. But there is a long list of examples where this technology has raised serious concerns. So, what is needed before we trust government to use these tools when making decisions that affect us? Lyria Bennett Moses argues that what we need isn’t more ‘ethical AI’ statements or even technological improvements - instead it’s about legal constraints built into legislation, protection for privacy and autonomy, detailed standards that explain ‘how’ to get it right, and engagement with an educated citizenry.
Lyria is Director of the Allens Hub for Technology, Law and Innovation and a Professor and Associate Dean (Research) in the Faculty of Law and Justice at UNSW Sydney. She is also co-lead of the Law and Policy theme in the Cyber Security Cooperative Research Centre and Faculty lead in the UNSW Institute for Cyber Security. Lyria's research explores issues around the relationship between technology and law, including the types of legal issues that arise as technology changes, how these issues are addressed in Australia and other jurisdictions, and the problems of treating “technology” as an object of regulation. Recently, she has been working on legal and policy issues associated with the use of artificial intelligence (with a book co-authored with Dr Michael Guihot and published by LexisNexis on Artificial Intelligence, Robots and the Law and ongoing work on standards through Standards Australia and IEEE), the appropriate legal framework for enhancing cyber security (through the Cyber Security Cooperative Research Centre), and oversight for law enforcement intelligence. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at www.ted.com/tedx

[@raulguilhermealves4943]

yes, we should already be freaking out. But we're not. And that's the problem

[@TamraDL]

Yep!

[@tikkiu7345]

The devices are a distraction, look on any tube or bus.. consumption of "media" is rotting brains

[@jeej1344]

Reason? People's attention is overwhelmed with coolwashing of AI

[@clusterstage]

3:06 yes, in fact, its not the AI we should be scared of, but the people in AUTHORITY who listen to the recommendations of this algorithm, without even questioning how it arrived at that conclusion. There are too many cases to work with and hence the laziness of algo-verification.

[@rezadaneshi]

You bring eloquence by observing that our outside the box thinking is still inside a bigger box. Well done. Unfortunately in that perspective, knowing that the vocal majority can’t change the direction of where we are going, makes that bleak future inevitable short of an impossible miracle. So is that your conclusion?

[@clusterstage]

@@rezadaneshi In my video upload, a post-AI society is indeed unstoppable because no matter how many restrictions are in place, unfortunately, when dealing with rogue intelligences, its just something no one has dealt in previous lifetimes.

[@rezadaneshi]

@@clusterstage AI is a very bad idea in a society filled with people who will come to fear and criticize AI as AI’s subjects.

[@clusterstage]

@@rezadaneshi ya think? well to be fair, we can't really criticize something smarter than us. No one has the talent to factor every single calculation, activity, and unforgetfulness like an AI can.

[@kristimullen7072]

She looks way better than the image associated with her speech on KZbin. Like her already ❤

[@duke6726]

YES!! WE should afraid, VERY afraid! " Intelligence with out COMMON SENSE is very dangerous " I don't think that the people who are creating this AI can ever put the "genie" back in the bottle.

[@jeej1344]

That's where informed citizen activism comes into play

[@teebone2157]

Even if we have a social credit system in the United States you know billionaires will just bribe politicians to keep themselves out of it

[@KatinaMichael]

Such an important, informative and well thought out TEDx talk! Congrats Lyria Bennett Moses. I'll be adding it to my course outlines.

[@deamdeam663]

I am sure if in the US all court systems would be replaced by the AI, every person in our corrupt government would be already in jail and most of the people in jail be out of prisons.

[@bukurie6861]

Thank you😍

[@ollydsouza]

Risk Assessment? It relies on "feedback"! Decision making is done within an operational context! And this process workflow has to be simulated and checked out before release!

[@jp4yu]

Weapons of math destruction

[@China-129]

“To save the world requires faith and courage: faith in reason, and courage to proclaim what reason shows to be true.” *― Bertrand Russell🇬🇧*

[@jason666king]

We should worry about government in government.

[@clusterstage]

in about 11 minutes of your talk, you mentioned about laws. if you think about it, laws can't quite catch up to slow developing tech like the metaverse. By the time they restrict AI with the 1st approved law, AI will have evolved to be almost unrecognizable. Even to the point the law MAY NO LONGER apply to that year. Clearly you're unaware why politics is irrelevant to the speed of AI. Ironically, I love how your talk made me realize a few things myself.

[@ollydsouza]

I think we are missing the point here - we need closed loop processes to drive any operation, self correcting, advisory tools as part of the WORKFLOW!

[@keionfloyd]

This scares me!

[@Gg-ij7li]

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[@MS-sr6mj]

Important conversation to have.

[@severussnap4373]

short answer , yes.

[@clusterstage]

Historical data 4:17 isn't even close to 90% accurate in predicting the future. The AI researchers who designed that algorithm may have overlooked at the "gamblers fallacy", which is a backwards way of relying on the past to predict what's gonna happen tomorrow.

[@E5PY]

Haven't watched it yet: YES. Let's see if she changes my mind

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~ very useful ❤️

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[@HannesPowerLoad]

No need to worry.. I give you my word

[@tikkiu7345]

So have thousands of men and women over the eons. They're dead.

[@clusterstage]

12:35 unfortunately, code being "released transparently" doesn't mean that the algorithm will allow changes in its codebase. Plus, no one has attention span to pay EVEN a closer look on reviewing the code. I've designed a video to test our attention span. It’s sooo boring that the higher we score, the lesser damage done to us by the algorithm in the apps we use. Try this; comment the time you quit watching and let's see the results.

[@clusterstage]

That's why they invented AI "recommendations"; it's easier to direct a person's attention than predict a person's behavior.

[@originaljungle]

This is John Connor. If you’re listening to this, you are the Resistance

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Secret Military Application in Residential Territory. SMART

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“I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.” *- Bertrand Russell🇬🇧*

[@olasokolowska]

He's not!

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[@kenbiron1964]

Hmmmm. Yea, some municipal duties are automated now, provincial and federal, too. Some crews like Civic and perhaps private snow removal crews when snow levels reach a set depth. There's lots more in the Ifrastucture lying underneath our roads, forests, and power. It's crawling through for our safety, they say. Right below our feet. They've been crawling and updating well over 2 decades now. Here on Canada's Western shores anyways.

[@bitc0inlightningrules423]

Has'nt Australia voted for a anti encryption law? Than are discriminating government algorithms the least of your worries.

[@I.____.....__...__]

2:18 * The process isn't Orewellian, it's Kafkaesque or Byzantine. … 10:46 Better late than never.

[@h0m3st4r]

Technology is our friend as long as we use it responsibly.

[@freesk8]

Power corrupts. This AI represents a power that will corrupt our elected officials and bureaucrats even more than they already are. We should deny them this power.

[@tikkiu7345]

We aren't a responsible species.

[@China-129]

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❤️

[@juliearaiza3465]

Any negative results should be looked at by a real person to check the results. All of them and random question about QA checks should be carried out as well. Anything that is borderline should be done in a group each morning.

[@johnfarris6152]

The only thing A.I. can do better than you is see patterns much better than we ever could and it doesn't sleep.

[@FarbotBurunetNia]

I do appreciate you for being intelligent enough to know that artificial intelligence do not really exist: computation based on given algorithm is not intelligence if the true definition of intelligent is applied rather than manipulated term of intelligent are applied intelligence based on human measure and applied definition. Farbot Burun'Net Nia

[@ShahrezadNorMohammadiy9116]

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Who's that Al Gorithm person anyway???

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[@Velvet3232]

I'm inn a little bad mood, just because of myself i guess. but i dont think these are the questions we should be asking our selves.

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It's ok to be angry. Let it out, better than letting it fester inside.

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[@tikkiu7345]

Don't you come from a Muslim country, with a name like that, aren't you supposed to be happy with your servitude to males? Keeping silence in the Mosque?

[@ShahrezadNorMohammadiy9116]

“In our house education was top priority. Like his father before him, my father wanted to make examples of us, the next generation of educated and progressive Pakistanis.” *-Benazir Bhutto 🇵🇰*

[@everythingyoulove7858]

Benazir Bhutto Murdabad who destroyed this country and still her son is may Allah make them pay for their deeds to this country

[@pablojbressan2260]

In my opnião IA can help government bad decisions too, people had some mistakes, and government is formed by people 👍

[@ShahrezadNorMohammadiy9116]

“We learned at an early age that it was men's interpretation of our religion that restricted women's opportunities, not our religion itself.” *-Benazir Bhutto 🇵🇰*

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[@Gg-ij7li]

Jesus loves you and is coming back soon! Believe in His death and resurrection and repent of your sins and be saved! Remember that He died and rose up again for you to be in heaven with Him! Have an amazing day 💕

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[@Gg-ij7li]

Jesus loves you and is coming back soon! Believe in His death and resurrection and repent of your sins and be saved! Remember that He died and rose up again for you to be in heaven with Him! Have an amazing day 💕

[@ShahrezadNorMohammadiy9116]

“Writing the book has been difficult. It has meant reliving the pain of the past. But it has also been cathartic, forcing me for the first time to come to terms with memories I had been trying to escape.” *-Benazir Bhutto 🇵🇰*