Research published in 2017 showed that social media algorithms create outcomes based on assumptions about the users, but users also adapt to these outcomes, such as which stories show in their feeds, also changing the logic of the algorithm. Our daily interactions with AI are making us increasingly reliant on it, but the power dynamic in this relationship greatly favours the AI systems. This is a technology whose inner workings aren't even fully understood by its creators.
It's vital to understand as much as possible about AI's development because the technology is already changing us in ways we don't seem to realise. [...] AI has already led to job displacements and unemployment. [...] Algorithms have been shown to contain discriminatory tendencies towards race, gender and other protected characteristics. We need to understand how these and other problems with AI development arise. [...] There is also a lack of transparency and accountability regarding AI.
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