If your organization can’t show the sources, can’t measure error, and can’t assign accountability, then you don’t have “responsible AI”. You have risk in a new wrapper. This isn’t a new problem created by AI. This problem is repeated any time there’s a new technology being implemented and there’s hype created around how easy it’s going to make business. What AI is doing is offloading assumptions that were normally fact-checked by staff, and putting them into a black box with corporate friendly language like “hallucination” used to obfuscate what used to get a real person in deep trouble: fabrication of data and failure to check work.

read more...