Who's Liable for AI Misinformation With Chatbots Like ChatGPT? | WSJ Tech News Briefing
Generative artificial-intelligence chatbots like ChatGPT are known to get things wrong sometimes, a process known as “hallucinating.” But can anyone be held liable if those incorrect responses are damaging in some way?
Host Zoe Thomas talks to a legal expert and an AI ethicist to explore the legal landscape for generative AI technology, and the tactics companies are employing to improve their products. This is the fourth episode of Tech News Briefing’s special series on generative AI, “Artificially Minded.”
0:00 Why Australian mayor Brian Hood is thinking about suing OpenAI's ChatGPT for defamation
4:44 Why generative AI programs like OpenAI’s ChatGPT can get facts wrong
6:26 What the 1996 Communication Decency Act could tell us about laws around generative AI
10:20 How generative AI blurs the line between creator and platform
12:56 How lawmakers around the world are handing regulation around AI
14:13 Why AI hallucinations happen
17:16 How Google is taking steps to create a more factual chatbot with Bard
18:34 How tech companies work with AI ethicists: what is red teaming?
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Let Me Take Over: Variable Autonomy for Meaningful Human Control
As Artificial Intelligence (AI) continues to expand its reach, the demand for human control and the development of AI systems that adhere to our legal, ethical, and social values also grows. Many (international and national) institutions have taken steps in this direction and published guidelines for the development and deployment of responsible AI systems. These guidelines, however, rely heavily on high-level statements that provide no clear criteria for system assessment, making the effective control over systems a challenge. “Human oversight” is one of the requirements being put forward as a means to support human autonomy and agency. In this paper, we argue that human presence alone does not meet this requirement and that such a misconception may limit the use of automation where it can otherwise provide so much benefit across industries. We therefore propose the development of systems with variable autonomy—dynamically adjustable levels of autonomy—as a means of ensuring meaningful human control over an artefact by satisfying all three core values commonly advocated in ethical guidelines: accountability, responsibility, and transparency.