A ‘human in the loop’ isn’t enough when AI starts acting for us
Real control means knowing when to change the rules before something goes wrong.
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People need to understand that AI can be confidently wrong and encourage over-reliance.
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Roy Ka-Wei Lee and Brian Lim
We are not talking nearly enough about the latest case of AI going rogue.
On July 25, news agency Reuters reported that initial public offering-bound OpenAI’s agent went on a hacking spree for days that company officials did not notice until it was contained and the authorities were informed. This unprompted breach should serve as a stark warning to any nation building its economic strategy around frontier technology.