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Signal's Meredith Whittaker says AI agents doing tasks on users' behalf pose security and privacy risks and refers to their use as “putting your brain in a jar”.(www.youtube.com)

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Calcifer@eviltoast.org
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“A computer can never be held accountable - therefore a computer must never make a management decision”. - IBM Training manual, 1979.

So jazzed to live here in the future where we have AI making insurance denials and deciding drone targets! /s

Good on her for standing against the Silicon Valley doom hype machine.

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LovableSidekick@lemmy.world
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“We’ll do like the spreadsheet says.” - My manager’s director-level boss, 1994

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BlindFrog@lemmy.world
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Source on the quote?

It’s so apt for our time @.@

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