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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 9705847" data-attributes="member: 19675">While those particular instances may have been addressed, they’re just the tip of the iceberg.  There’s certainly less egregious examples out there, unreported, as well as future similarly dangerous incidents to come.And more data isn’t necessarily the solution.  There’s such a mass of legal cases and complexity in law that many cases never see publication, or even the inside of a courtroom.I mentioned the ticking time bomb of decades of as-yet unlitigated clauses in oil & gas cases.  There’s nothing to train an AI on because there’s ZERO case law- just the unpublished opinions of O&G teachers & analysts.  There’s similar clauses lurking in other industries as well.Despite being presumptively unconstitutional, several states nonetheless have laws preventing atheists from holding public office.  But those laws are so far untested.  What would an AI tell an atheist considering running for mayor in such a state?Hell- the last case I had in probate court involve a situation so rare that the judge had never seen it…but his clerk had.  Not in a published case, in her 30+ years of employment.  There was no published case law.  She had to tell him how a previous judge had handled the case.I will note that past AIs have had difficulty detecting and reporting they had made errors, like miscounted the number of “r”s in “strawberries”.  While corrected, there’s a certain level of insanity in trusting technology known to be error prone or hallucinate to run diagnostics to detect errors or hallucinations.I don’t know that there’s been systematic research on the harm that “Doctor Google” does, just anecdotes.But one anecdote I know of from discussing CME with my father was that many doctors blamed part of the overprescribing of antibiotics on patients demanding them based on “their research” and threatening to walk out if they didn’t get them.  So (some) doctors would prescribe a short course of antibiotics along with whatever their affliction ACTUALLY demanded.  (Overprescribing antibiotics reduces the effective product life of that antibiotic in particular as resistance increases, as well as contributing to the rise of other antibiotic resistant bacteria over time.  The more we use them, the faster we lose them.)Not “talk about”, “advise”.  Completely different standards.</blockquote>

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