AI & Global Governance: No One Should Trust AI - Centre for Policy Research at United Nations University

No one should trust Artificial Intelligence (AI). Trust is a relationship between peers in which the trusting party, while not knowing for certain what the trusted party will do, believes any promises being made. AI is a set of system development techniques that allow machines to compute actions or knowledge from a set of data. Only other software development techniques can be peers with AI, and since these do not "trust", no one actually can trust AI. More importantly, no human should need to trust an AI system, because it is both possible and desirable to engineer AI for accountability. We do not need to trust an AI system, we can know how likely it is to perform the task assigned, and only that task.