Recently, some people1 wanted to create a buzz by taking apart, from a legal point of view, the decision taken on 31 March 2023 by the Italian authorities to block the chatbot GPT on the grounds that it did not comply with the legislation on personal data and because no system had been provided by OpenAI, the company that created it, to check the age of underage users2.
The Italian authorities had already blocked, two months earlier, REPLIKA, another program marketed as a "virtual friend" that created very intimate relationships with those who used it and, as a paying option, conducted role-playing games and flirting, with voice messages and naughty photos3.
In fact, we must salute this first attempt by the Italian authorities, who had the courage to take such decisions. One would have thought that the Belgian authorities would have done so, following the death of a young father after 6 weeks of conversation with ELIZA, another artificial intelligence.
And perhaps, if Belgium had taken such decisions, this young father would still be alive.
In reality, Artificial Intelligence does not pose fundamental questions for society as some1 have written, but a DANGER FOR HUMANITY, as Elon Musk and Steve Wozniak4 think and as many researchers who have signed a petition 5, who are asking AI laboratories to interrupt their development for at least six months.
It is a fact that given the evolution of science in general, reality often meets fiction. For example, to cite just one example among many, did not HERGE, in his TINTIN on the moon, beat NASA to the punch?
But, in view of all the apocalyptic films that revolve around misused AI, we can ask ourselves if reality is not going to exceed fiction?
It is therefore urgent to take measures and to follow the path opened by the Italian authorities, by creating at UN level an agency of the IAEA type which could be called INTERNATIONAL ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY or IAIA and which would have as its mission to control the use made of AI and to limit its powers so that under no circumstances would artificial intelligence take control of the planet in our place.
The urgency is all the more certain as I have just read that before the end of this year there is talk of applying ChatGPT to humanoid robots!
Perhaps if it were smarter than us - it wouldn't be difficult - it could avoid wars. Unless, like humans, it takes pleasure in waging war with another artificial intelligence that is waging war on us by proxy.
It's in the air at the moment.
1. Droit et technologie – ChatGPT interdit en Italie- l’autorité fait le buzz mais a-elle raison
2. France 24.com, L’Italie bloque l’usage de l’intelligence artificielle ChatGPT
3. Lefigaro.fr/secteur/high-tech, 20230319
4. fr.euronews.com/next/2023/03/30/ l’intelligence artificielle-un danger-pour-lhumanite
5. Lefigaro.fr/ secteur/high-tech, 20230329 – france24.com, 20230330
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