Researchers Believe AI Can Be Used To Help Protect People's Privacy

Two professors of information science have recently published a piece in The Conversation, arguing that AI could help preserve people's privacy, rectifying some of the issues that it has created. Zhiyuan Chen and Aryya Gangopadhyay argue that artificial intelligence algorithms could be used to defend people's privacy, counteracting some of the many privacy concerns other uses of AI have created. Chen and Gangopadhyay acknowledge that many of the AI-driven products we use for convenience wouldn't work without access to large amounts of data, which at first glance seems at odds with attempts to preserve privacy. Furthermore, as AI spreads out into more and more industries and applications, more data will be collected and stored in databases, making breaches of those databases tempting. However, Chen and Gangopadhyay believe that when used correctly, AI can help mitigate these issues.