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‘We need global coordination to build safe and inclusive AI that is accessible to all’ – 25 quotes of the week on creativity, innovation and technology >

- by Madanmohan Rao [May 31, 2024]

WordSparks (‘words that spark change’) is a weekly feature from MXR.world, featuring quotes from media around the world on creativity, innovation and technology (see our earlier compilation here). Share these gems and insights with your colleagues and networks, and stay tuned here for our next edition!













With human creativity, technology is at its most awe-inspiring, giving people a powerful tool for self-expression and brand expression.

The explosion of synthetic content has also meant that audiences face new challenges in verifying content online.

What comes to mind is the old axiom about judging the intelligence of a fish by how well it can climb a tree, because many negative opinions about LLMs are based on misguided expectations.

AI-powered creativity can help reimagine traditional systems and structures in aviation, potentially transforming them for the better.

Artificial intelligence will continue to shape opportunity, mobility and impact in ways and speeds we have never experienced before.

GenAI is set to have a major impact on the legal industry of the future, with law firms and legal organizations of all shapes and sizes already exploring its use.

As the education community experiments with these GenAI tools, it is imperative that the safety and privacy of students and faculty are not put at risk.

With no code options and low-cost computing available, the barriers have never been lower to use AI. Now is the time to ask your own challenging questions and build up your AI intuition.

Feedback from pilots indicates GenAI has been instrumental in streamlining code generation, debugging, and ensuring code consistency.

Prompt engineering requires a deep understanding of AI systems, their limitations, and the desired outcomes.

Manufacturers using GenAI tools should clearly communicate to data subjects (vehicle occupants) their data collection, data storage, and data usage practices, and should only process personal data for disclosed purposes.

You are essentially evaluating a subjective, non-deterministic product, so it’s hard to come up with an objective set of guidelines.

Attackers are actually engaging with AI continuously. They’re adopting AI in their work and using it.

LLM jailbreaking is a technique that uses complex prompts on chatbots to trick them into answering questions that go against their own policies.

As a new era of technology dawns, the call for ethical considerations, sustainable practices and a balanced approach to AI deployment is both timely and imperative.

Speed and lethality are the watchwords for military tech. But in prioritising AI, the scope for human agency is marginalised.

Humanity must lead the technology, rather than the other way around.

In many cases, people are either unaware that they’ve been affected by AI systems, or if they’re aware, and if they’ve been harmed by it, they don’t want to talk about it. They want to move on.

At the end of the day, GenAI is just another tool. But for this tool to work, we need to make sure boundaries are in place.

A hard split between AI-created and human-created content will become entirely impossible to determine.

It’s important to identify bias when it appears in AI output, while at the same time recognizing your own.

We must protect against the predatory use of AI to steal artists' voices and likenesses.

We need robust mechanisms to ensure that individuals’ consent is obtained and respected in the creation and dissemination of AI-generated content.

Responsible AI use is especially critical when directly interfacing with consumers and, by extension, consumer data.

We need global coordination to build safe and inclusive AI that is accessible to all.

Madanmohan Rao is Co-founder of MXR.world, and author of 15+ books on innovation, knowledge management, and digital transformation. He can be followed on LinkedIn and Twitter