Ethical Applications of AI to Public Sector Problems
Jacob Kaplan-Moss:
There have been massive developments in AI in the last decade, and they’re changing what’s possible with software. There’s also been a huge amount of misunderstanding, hype, and outright bullshit. I believe that the advances in AI are real, will continue, and have promising applications in the public sector. But I also believe that there are clear “right” and “wrong” ways to apply AI to public sector problems.
He breaks down AI usage into “Assistive AI”, where AI is used to process and consume information (in ways or amounts that humans cannot) to present to a human operator, versus “Automated AI”, where the AI both processes and acts upon information, without input or oversight from a human operator. The latter is unethical to apply in the public sector.(tags: ai ethics llm genai public-sector government automation)