White House to determine impact of AI on workers, and study risks
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The White House has said that it will conduct a listening session with workers to understand the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) technology has on them, Reuters reported.
Even though the explosion of AI technology on the technology scene is barely a few months old, employers in the U.S. have already begun using the technology to monitor workers. This includes the use of automated technologies for surveillance, monitoring, and evaluation.
The White House allocates investments in various technology sectors and it now wants to know the impact of AI on workers, when it looks poised to radically change the nature of work. A report from Goldman Sachs earlier this year suggested that AI could affect 80 percent of jobs in the U.S. and E.U.
White House listening session
Since the launch of generative AI tools such as ChatGPT last year, millions of users have turned to them to carry out a wide spectrum of tasks. Interesting Engineering has also reported how bots have been built to automate a series of tasks that need to be performed to get the intended results on these tools.
Although hugely popular among users, these tools are far from perfect. Yet, employers and organizations have rushed to use them to automate a range of monitoring tasks including surveillance and evaluation, without recognizing the dangers of the inherent biases in these systems.
The listening session aims to understand the experience of workers with these technologies and will also include voices from gig work experts, researchers, and policymakers, the report said.
The listening session comes on the heels of President Joe Biden hosting top executives of tech companies such as Alphabet and Microsoft earlier this month. The meeting stressed the need for AI companies to be more transparent about their systems and ensure the safety of their products.
Last week, Sam Altman, the CEO of ChatGPT creator OpenAI warned that AI could go quite wrong and highlighted the need for a licensing regime for AI systems, The Wall Street Journal said in a report. Another report from the Education Department highlighted the need for the urgent implementation of policies to ensure that AI tools applied in the sector were free from bias.
Interesting Engineering also reported that AI tools were used to create video showcasing a dystopian future after President Biden announced his intention to run for a second term.
In light of all these developments, the White House intends to formulate a national AI strategy to ensure that these systems are also accountable.
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