Living with the Algorithm – Servant or Master?

ACID is proud to announce that our Ambassador, Tim Clement-Jones CBE has written an informative book on AI looking at a comprehensive breakdown of the AI risks and how to address them.

Tim writes, “The rapid proliferation of AI brings with it a potentially massive shift in how society interacts with the digital world. New opportunities and challenges are emerging in unprecedented fashion and speed. AI, however, comes with its own risks, including the potential for bias and discrimination, reputational harm, and the potential for widescale redundancy of millions of jobs. Many prominent technologists have voiced their concern at the existential risks to humanity that AI pose. So how do we ensure that AI remains our servant and not our master?

The purpose in this book is to identify and address these key risks looking at current approaches to regulation and governance of AI internationally in both the public and private sector, how we meet and mitigate these challenges, avoid inadequate or ill-considered regulatory approaches, and protect ourselves from the unforeseen consequences that could flow from unregulated AI development and adoption”.

Dids Macdonald OBE said, “This is a welcome publication more especially in view of the very real risks posed to IP creatives by large language business models (LLMs) driving a bullet train through intellectual property as we know it. The anonymity with which large language models can dilute their corporate and moral responsibility to IP respect, ethics and compliance is staggering and, to date, knows few boundaries. This book, from a wealth of experience of AI, will guide the reader through the labyrinth of complexity and risks that AI presents as well as providing solutions”.

 Published by Unicorn Publishing in March 2024 Paperback with flaps, £14.99 ISBN: 9781911397922

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About Lord Tim Clement Jones CBE Tim is the former Chair of the House of Lords Select Committee on Artificial Intelligence and co-founded the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Artificial Intelligence. He is the Liberal Democrat House of Lords spokesperson for Science, Innovation and Technology and is a founding member of the OECD Parliamentary Group on AI and a former Consultant to the Council of Europe’s Adhoc Committee on AI (“CAHAI”).