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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 21 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

"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.

[–] BlindFrog@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

Source on the quote?

It's so apt for our time @.@

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 4 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

"We'll do like the spreadsheet says." - My manager's director-level boss, 1994