"Personal information fuels much of AI innovation so people need to trust that organisations are using their information responsibly," it said.
No, we do not. First and foremost, in our current society, trust should be earned, and not understood as already given on first sight. Second, even if said trust is earned, it can be lost.
Most of these companies have shown, time and time again, that they cannot be trusted with personal information. To give credit, some companies do put up a disclaimer that you should not provide sensitive information. But that is only acknowledging that they are going to use in a public way, i.e. everything you feed into AI models is going to be public.
And finally, advances in AI do not require personal information. Not ever. Just because we CAN provide personal information, it does not mean we SHOULD provide it.
It’s rather odd that the ICO is saying this rather than industry lobbyists. No 10 is full of middle-aged technically unsophisticated types who want to look otherwise, and substitute credulity for wordliness, and I think Quangoland’s denizens are following the party line. (The shadow cabinet, but they aren’t that focused on growth because they have the luxury of not having to run the country.) The ensuing disasters may well be far worse than Horizon, if HMG ever gets anywhere with its AI plans.
No, we do not. First and foremost, in our current society, trust should be earned, and not understood as already given on first sight. Second, even if said trust is earned, it can be lost.
Most of these companies have shown, time and time again, that they cannot be trusted with personal information. To give credit, some companies do put up a disclaimer that you should not provide sensitive information. But that is only acknowledging that they are going to use in a public way, i.e. everything you feed into AI models is going to be public.
And finally, advances in AI do not require personal information. Not ever. Just because we CAN provide personal information, it does not mean we SHOULD provide it.