The Australian government this week released voluntary artificial intelligence (AI) safety standards, alongside a proposals paper calling for greater regulation of the use of the fast-growing technology in high-risk situations. The take-home message from federal Minister for Industry and Science, Ed Husic, was: We need more people to use AI and to do that we need to build trust. But why exactly do people need to trust this technology? And why exactly do more people need to use it? AI systems are trained on incomprehensibly large data sets using advanced mathematics most people don’t understand. They produce results we have…
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