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President, Patrick J. McGovern Foundation | AI Expert and Keynote Speaker | Board Director | Building Human Opportunity in a Digital World
We can build AI that amplifies human potential without compromising safety. The key lies in defining clear red lines. When AI systems were simple tools, reactive safety worked. As they gain autonomy and capability, we need clear boundaries on what these tools can and should help humans accomplish - not to limit innovation, but to direct them toward human benefit. Our Global Future Council on the Future of #AI at the World Economic Forum just published findings on "behavioral red lines" for AI. Think of them as guardrails that prevent harm without blocking progress. What makes an effective red line? Read more here: https://lnkd.in/g-x7Sb73 Clarity: The boundary must be precisely defined and measurable Unquestionable: Violations must clearly constitute severe harm Universal: Rules must apply consistently across contexts and borders These qualities matter. Without them, guardrails become either unenforceable or meaningless. Together, we identified critical red lines in our daily tech tools such as systems that self-replicate without authorization, hack other systems, impersonate humans, or facilitate dangerous weapons development. Each represents a point where AI's benefits are overshadowed by potential harm. Would we build nuclear facilities without containment systems? Of course not. Why then do we deploy increasingly powerful AI without similar safeguards? Enforcement requires both prevention and accountability. We need certification before deployment, continuous monitoring during operation, and meaningful consequences for violations. This work reflects the thinking of our Global Future Council, including Pascale Fung, Adrian Weller, Constanza Gomez Mont, Edson Prestes, Mohan Kankanhalli, Jibu Elias, Karim Beguir, and Stuart Russell, with valuable support from the WEF team, including Benjamin Cedric Larsen, PhD. I'm also attaching here our White Paper on AI Value Alignment - where our work was led by the brilliant Virginia Dignum. #AIGovernance #AIEthics #TechPolicy #WEF #AI #Ethics #ResponsibleAI #AIRegulation The Patrick J. McGovern Foundation Satwik Mishra Anissa Arakal
Any effort to ensure values alignment should include the system prompt. I didn't see that in your paper. Please reach out if you want to discuss more deeply.
Thank you for this work and specificity of the "red lines." I would love to see more reflections on inequity and broken global finance actually being the primary paradigm dictating what ultimately happens to the planet and all its people. This is not a critique - just stating a reality that can be summed up in a theory known as "weak versus strong sustainability." Essentially (and I'm paraphrasing) if anyone in the world wants to not include the overt measurement and accounting (meaning, CPA style accounting) of all of earth's natural resources like water, then anything they do to achieve "safety" or "avoiding risk" with AI or anything else will be incomplete in its full measurement of the (physical / physics oriented) world. This is not political. It is not moral per se. It's not about ethics. It's about reality. As an example, where the desire to understand how much water and energy is actually being used at a data center re: GenAI usage, it is imperative and helpful and needed to try and maximize efficiencies for the data center to optimize water usage, or even avoid it altogether (eg, use chemical coolants, utilize greywater, etc). Yet optimizing all these things would be a form of "weak sustainability."
Insightful - the technology that is able to provide what you promote is much closer than you would expect, but as it moves too far beyond LLM technology it seems most people simply will not spend the time to verify that.
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Is one of the red lines, “don’t use GenAI until there are no hallucinations, anthropomorphization, or IP issues?”
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1 周All agreed. Let's not forget though individual alignment as well. GliaNet Alliance