The seduction, hype and mythology of AI knows no bounds. I read recently about AI ‘deathbots’ and wondered just how more absurd can this delusion of AI go. What you do, is sample your voice, data, videos, messages and voice notes, creating “digital doubles” of ourselves and, other input into AI … [Read more...] about You Don’t Do AI, AI Does You! Where Next for Safety?
Artificial Intelligence
AI Looks Back, as Does Safety so, Where Will Innovation Come From?
Try an interesting experiment and look up yourself using AI and see what you find. What can AI do? It can scan the past and trawl through what’s available online but it can’t think critically (https://safetyrisk.net/what-is-critical-thinking-for-safety/ ), interpret, ask, think forward or embrace … [Read more...] about AI Looks Back, as Does Safety so, Where Will Innovation Come From?
The Dangers of AI for Safety
I don’t use AI and never have and, have no intention of doing so. We’ve done two video on the dangers of AI for safety here: https://safetyrisk.net/is-ai-safe-two-videos/ And, have written on the ethics of using AI in safety here: https://safetyrisk.net/ai-ethics-and-ai-safety/ My last … [Read more...] about The Dangers of AI for Safety
Let’s Do Everything Except Listen to People in Safety
I received heaps of positive feedback about my Newsletter (https://safetyrisk.net/quartely-newsletter-spor-news-april-2025/ ) yesterday that featured the theme: Is AI Safe? One executive leader stated that: The worst example is the so called ‘predictive analytics’ tools. I have seen how these … [Read more...] about Let’s Do Everything Except Listen to People in Safety
Is AI Safe? – Two Videos
Recently, Dr Craig Ashhurst, Dr Nippin Anand, Greg Smith and Dr Rob Long discussed the adoption of AI into the world of risk and safety. There are two videos here: Video One https://vimeo.com/1069071797 and here: Video Two https://vimeo.com/1069073815 Each one of these scholars … [Read more...] about Is AI Safe? – Two Videos
What You Give Up Using AI To Do Safety
The purpose of doing is learning. Learning through experience is our best teacher. This is because one of the best ways to learn is through feeling the results of doing. There’s nothing like disappointment and failure to teach a lesson. Similarly, there’s nothing like reward and success to … [Read more...] about What You Give Up Using AI To Do Safety
Who Is Responsible When the Cause is NOT a Person?
The first recoded death by driverless car was of Elaine Herzberg in 2018. When this happens who is responsible? There are other examples. Of course, the pundits were telling us 10 years ago that driverless cars would be all over the roads by now. They are not. The propaganda about technology … [Read more...] about Who Is Responsible When the Cause is NOT a Person?
AI, Ethics and AI Safety
I read with interest the white paper from LexisNexis Privacy and AI: Navigating Australia's Shifting Regulatory Landscape. And, apart from being a fairly typical marketing ploy, there is simply no discussion of ethics nor the critical need for understanding Technique (Ellul, Postman). The idea … [Read more...] about AI, Ethics and AI Safety
More of Safety talking to Safety About safety
So, we can now add a new area of expertise that Safety has acquired. We don’t just have Safety presenting on Ethics and Culture, we now have Safety parading a lack of expertise in Linguistics. Through the so-called lens of ‘language intelligence’. Download HERE: Language Intelligence However, if … [Read more...] about More of Safety talking to Safety About safety
AI Priorities and The Creation of Psychosocial Harm
An article appeared today (https://www.thenewdaily.com.au/life/tech/2023/12/04/bunnings-ai-chatbot) on how Bunnings, part of the Wesfarmers group, who also own Coles, Kmart, Officeworks and Wesfarmers Industrial and Safety brands, interviews potential candidates. The articles states: ‘People … [Read more...] about AI Priorities and The Creation of Psychosocial Harm