1 AI Pioneers such as Yoshua Bengio
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Artificial intelligence algorithms require large amounts of information. The techniques used to obtain this data have actually raised concerns about personal privacy, monitoring and copyright.

AI-powered devices and services, such as virtual assistants and IoT products, constantly collect individual details, raising issues about intrusive information event and unauthorized gain access to by 3rd parties. The loss of privacy is by AI's capability to procedure and combine large quantities of data, possibly leading to a surveillance society where individual activities are constantly kept track of and examined without appropriate safeguards or transparency.

Sensitive user information gathered might include online activity records, geolocation information, video, or audio. [204] For example, in order to construct speech recognition algorithms, Amazon has recorded millions of private discussions and allowed short-term employees to listen to and transcribe some of them. [205] Opinions about this widespread security range from those who see it as a necessary evil to those for whom it is plainly unethical and an offense of the right to privacy. [206]
AI developers argue that this is the only way to deliver valuable applications and have developed several strategies that attempt to maintain personal privacy while still obtaining the information, such as information aggregation, de-identification and differential personal privacy. [207] Since 2016, some privacy specialists, such as Cynthia Dwork, have begun to view personal privacy in regards to fairness. Brian Christian wrote that specialists have pivoted "from the concern of 'what they understand' to the question of 'what they're doing with it'." [208]
Generative AI is frequently trained on unlicensed copyrighted works, consisting of in domains such as images or computer system code