AI firms could be more transparent: Meta VP [Video]

Ask Meta Platforms Inc.’s head of artificial intelligence research how the technology could be made safer and she takes inspiration from an unlikely place: the grocery store.

Supermarkets are filled with products that offer key information at a glance, Joelle Pineau says.

“That list of ingredients allows people to make informed choices about whether they want to eat that food or not,” explains Pineau, who is due to speak at the Elevate tech conference in Toronto this week.

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“But right now, in AI, we seem to have a rather paternalistic approach to (transparency), which is let us decide what is the regulation or what everyone should or shouldn’t do, rather than have something that empowers people to make choices.”

Pineau’s reflections on the state of AI come as the globe is awash in chatter …