MEPX
Chapter 5 of 10All chapters
  1. 1Two conversations
  2. 2Bias and fairness
  3. 3Transparency and explanation
  4. 4Accountability
  5. 5Harms happening now
  6. 6The alignment problem
  7. 7Misuse
  8. 8Long-term risk
  9. 9Regulation
  10. 10Working responsibly

Chapter 5 of 10

Harms happening now

The uncontested list.

The main ones

Fabricated information presented confidently, fraud using cloned voices and faces, non-consensual imagery, biased automated decisions, privacy erosion, and heavy environmental cost from training.

  • Voice cloning fraud is now a routine crime.
  • Generated content floods and degrades the information commons.

Concentration

Frontier development requires capital few organisations have, which concentrates decisions about widely used systems in very few hands. That is a governance concern independent of any technical risk.