The aviation industry learned a fundamental lesson about safety decades ago: When a complex system fails, understanding what happened is essential to preventing it from happening again. Aircraft are designed with operational controls, flight recorders and established procedures for investigating accidents. Each plays a different role in making the overall...
AI Drift Is Real. The Answer Should Be More Human Control.
A new campaign from the Center for Humane Technology is putting the phrase “AI drift” in New York City subway stations. Mashable describes the concept as the gradual erosion of human abilities as AI takes on more of our thinking, communicating, creating and decision-making. The campaign asks provocative questions: Are...
MentalHealthBench Is Progress. It Also Exposes the Fundamental Problem With AI Mental Health.
OpenAI’s MentalHealthBench is a serious attempt to address a serious problem: Millions of people are already using generative AI for emotionally sensitive conversations, while the models themselves remain probabilistic systems capable of misunderstanding the person on the other side. The instinct behind the work is good. OpenAI has increasingly brought...