AI

Google's AI ethics report - summarized by Xavier, who leads AI products at Google

1. AI assistants have the potential to be a profoundly impactful technology via their deep integration into almost every aspect of our lives.
2. AI assistants have significant autonomy to plan and execute sequences of actions in line with high-level user instructions. Because of this, they present novel challenges around safety, alignment and misuse.
3. AI assistants may be increasingly human–like and enable significant levels of personalisation. While this is beneficial in some cases, it also opens up a complex set of questions around trust, privacy, anthropomorphism, relationships with AI and the moral limits of personalisation.
4. AI assistants may have significant social impacts, both in terms of the distribution of benefits and burdens within society and by fundamentally altering the ways in which humans cooperate and coordinate with one another.
5. Efforts to properly understand AI assistants and their impact encounter an evaluation gap when studied using existing methods.
6. The responsible development and deployment of AI assistants requires further research, policy work and public discussion.