Tim Berners-Lee Wants to Know: ‘Who Does AI Work For?’

Among all the negotiations Generative AI toolsAgents and autonomous robots south-west by the south-west, the web inventor, the web inventor, in the world, raised a simple point where the AI’s vision will be fighting.

“The question is who works for who?” Tim Berners-Lee, Tuesday, Tuesday, Austin, Texas drew attention to robotics at the conference.

Trust in the AI ​​systems such as conversation This year has been a point of focus discussions in SXSW. Includes conversations around The use of synthetic data and ways Adjust the EI industry.

Berners-Lee’s question drove into the heart of the issue: a company can make AI models reliable, accurate and impartial. However, because they are created by major corporations, it will always be a matter of whether the manufacturer or user’s heart is interested.

Compared to doctors and lawyers. Your doctor has a university, health system or practice, but has the task of working in your best interest. Your lawyer has the task of doing what is in your best interest. But AI Assistant to help you plan your holiday or ordering products? It can be taught to bend you in the direction of improving the manufacturer’s bottom line.

“I want to do the choices I want to do, I want to work for me,” he said. “I don’t want a AI trying to sell something to me.”

Does the best deal for you if you ask you to get the best deal about something from an AI assistant? Does it get the best deal for you? Berners-Lee sitting on the panel of robotics experts, had difficulty considering the potential conflict.

“Always ask an AI, ‘Who are you trying for?'” He said. “Who is the better interests of your interests and decisions?”

Classes from the Early Internet

Berners-Lee, in the early 1990s, compared the current environment around the world with the global dawn of the Internet. Until then, companies such as Microsoft and Netscape formed with researchers and activists World Extensive Web ConsortiumOr W3C, to prepare the infrastructure of the open Internet.

“All these companies have set up the internet together and made it together,” he said.

Today, this cooperation does not happen in the Generative EU. He sees companies that are competing and trying to compete each other “superstiveness“However, there is no organization in accordance with W3C setting standards. AI offered to create something like a similar group or CERN in the intergovernmental nuclear research laboratory in Europe.

“We have for our nuclear physics,” said Berners-Lee. “No for AI.”