Big Tech Companies are Burning Through Reservoirs of Trust With AI
Is generative AI a “personal productivity tool,” as some tech executives have argued, or primarily a destroyer-of-trust-in-tech-companies device?
In the process of rushing to deploy products, however, those companies are not just disrupting themselves. By hyping their generative AI products beyond recognition and pushing for their adoption by people who don’t understand the limitations of those products, they are disrupting our access to accurate information, our privacy and security, our communication with other humans and our perception of all the various organizations (including government agencies and nonprofits) that are adopting and deploying flawed generative AI tools.
Irina Raicu, director, Internet ethics, published by The Mercury News.