The AI is not the rogue.

Please stop anthropomorphizing AI by saying things like “rogue AI.”

AI is a collection of a large amount of data, connected in ways that are never disclosed or perhaps even understood by the people using the AI, but those connections are made by computer commands, not by the free will and intent of a living being. They and the AI they implement do don’t have free will, don’t think, and it don’t feel.

If anybody is rogue, it is the person who allows an AI system to cause unexpected, unwanted, and harmful results.

The AI has no responsibility and is not a rogue.

The person who developed the AI and the person who used it have responsibility. People must not allow the broligarchs to play the anthropomorphizing card.

There might come a time when society decides that the damage that humans can do using AI is serious enough to warrant limiting the availability of AI. This has been done with regards to guns, for example, although people in some countries claim that the ownership of instruments designed to kill is a right. Japan has a different view. But I digress.

I wonder if, even after incidents in which the users of AI have allowed the AI or instructed the AI to cause damage, will we see people claiming that availability of AI is a human right.

Author: William Lise

I am a long-term (50-plus years) resident of Japan, and former electrical engineer, and I have been translating and interpreting for over four decades here in Japan.