From The Gazette
Hefty fines urged against AI companies developing tools that scammers, fraudsters use
By Thelma Grimes
As artificial intelligence technology makes it easier to scam people, create fake images and videos and even ruin reputations, one policy debate swirls around who should get penalized for such behavior — the technology’s developer or the person who deployed it.
Drawing those boundaries are complicated, particularly when dealing with minors.
During a Nov. 19 Senate hearing chaired by Colorado’s U.S. John Hickenlooper, Hany Farid, a professor at the University of California Berkeley School of Information, used an example of a 12-year-old boy who could create non-consensual fake nude images of his female classmates.
While the boy should be held accountable, the government must start enforcing stiff punishments against the AI company that developed the technology that put the tools in the kid’s hands, he said.
Farid was adamant that punishing teenagers for misbehavior would not have a major national impact but that stiff, expensive punishments levied on the AI companies developing the technology would...
Hany Farid is a professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences and the School of Information at UC Berkeley.
