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We should not be expected to trust an AI system's outputs unless we know what it was trained on.
Their wordsUnless we know what information a system was trained upon, we cannot and should not be expected to trust its outputs.
Our reading
AI is an amplifier applied to human nature, incapable of regulating or comprehending itself.
Their wordsAI is neither autonomous, “good” nor “bad.” Rather, it is a kind of amplifier applied to human nature: a statistical tool capable of producing endlessly plausible outputs, yet fundamentally incapable of regulating or comprehending itself.
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