My breakdown of Australia's new regulation for AI companion chatbots

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🩷 Good governance would require and incentivise AI/ADM providers and deployers to be *mensches* (compassionate, humane, decent, capable of imagination), and not to treat compliance as mere process and box-ticking. (Everyone)

🫂 AI and ADM providers and deployers should have a statutory duty to take reasonable care to prevent foreseeable harm (general, positive, vague, and thus context sensitive), in addition to specific process-based risk controls such as those in the EU AI Act. (Me, Kim).

⚖️ Reforming privacy law with a 'fair and reasonable' requirement for use of personal info is a critical step to reduce downstream risks of harm from AI and ADM in social services (Kim, Sam).

📜 Governance is more than rules. Implementation determines outcomes, and many orgs providing social services seriously struggle with implementation (Kath)

➰ 'Human-In-The-Loop' is not a fix-all for automated-decision-making. One 'human' in an org is not going to push back on the systems, practices and assumptions that led the org to irresponsible/penny-pinching/unfair deployment of ADM in the first place (Jake)

Great panel yesterday on 'Governing automated decision-making for positive social services' with @kimweatherall.bsky.social , Samantha Floreani, Jake Goldenfein, and Kath Albury, organised and chaired by Christine Parker at @admscentre.org.au . The highlights of the conversation (in thread):

Ryan Broderick has been arguing that AI slop is to Trumpism as futurism was to fascism, and he just added that AI’s remixing of its training data is “an aspirational vision for the future that’s completely defined by nostalgia.”

(Just like fascism was!)

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Don't let a company that doesn't care about you think your thoughts for you with a pseudo-brain they still haven't finished making. Please.

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After marking too many papers riddled with AI generated nonsense, I worry about a future of *artificial general stupidity*. Will business, government and just about everyone succumb to the lure of cheap AI tools that aren't fit for purpose?

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