ai and trust
AI and trust
Andy Dufresne, the wrongly convicted character in The Shawshank Redemption, provocatively asks the prison guard early in the film: "Do you trust your wife?" It's a dead serious question regarding avoiding taxes on a recent financial windfall that had come the guard's way, and leads to events that eventually win freedom for Andy. And it's also a dead serious question being asked today with respect to AI. At this point we all recognize that successful deployment of AI is going to come down to something much more fundamental than the technical aspects of algorithms, neural networks and machine learning. It's going to come down to trust. Do we trust the black box calculations of AI? Do we trust it to drive our cars, diagnose our illnesses, and manage our finances? We have the same issue of trust with objects, but with a different set of circumstances.