Online, one in three users is a minor.
When we talk about #children and #artificialintelligence, we are talking about billions of children who will use #digital services and devices based on AI today and in the coming months.
In the internet age we haven't done enough to guarantee children the opportunity to reap all the enormous benefits of digital services and platforms, while limiting the risks as much as possible.
I believe we can and must do better as we enter the age of #AI.
I was a lawyer for more than 20 years before being elected to the Garante, but I don't believe that #regulation alone could be the solution to this kind of problem, that is more cultural and educational.
What can we do together, as institutions, regulators, civil society and industry?
I wish I had the right answer, but unfortunately I don't.
Let me say a few words about one of the biggest challenges we have to face: the "misuse of usability".
#OpenAI hasn't acquired millions of users in a week because of the extraordinary power of its technology, but because of the extraordinary usability of the chatgpt interface.
The killer application of chatgpt isn't the #algorithms, but the idea of offering an extraordinary new service based on a very complex technology through the same Whatsapp interface that, when chatgpt arrived on the market, was already known and used by billions of people all over the world.
The problem that I define as "usability abuse" is that when the service provider presents us with a very complex and powerful tool, giving us the impression, thanks to its #usability, that it is something very easy to use, not dangerous, we are urged to use it and to let children use it, without paying attention to possible side effects, without examining with the necessary critical spirit any possible sacrifice in terms of rights and freedoms.
I like usability. Thanks to it, access to new technologies is more open and democratic, but we have to face the risk of usability being abused by industry and the market, because we need people, starting from the youngest, to avoid using generative AI services in a kind of brain-off modality.
We need to explain to people, starting with #children, that they must always "switch on" the brain before using an AI service.
How do we challenge the abuse of usability, which is one of the killer applications of the industry in terms of the market?
How can we get providers of AI services to slow down the onboarding process and allow users, at least the younger ones, to understand the fundamental dynamics of the services?
Thanks to Vincenzo Zeno-Zencovich for the invitation to the #CPDPai2024 Conf. in Brussels - Gen. AI and Teens: collective efforts for AI Literacy across EU and congratulations to Clara Lin Hawking Graça Canto Moniz Georgios Yannopoulos Marta Morrás Ruiz for the interesting speech.
Universidad CEU San Pablo Google Center for AI and Digital Policy Rafaela Nicolazzi Autorità Garante per la protezione dei dati personali
My final day at the CPDP Conferences in Brussels - CPDP.ai 2024. A big thank you goes out to my co-panelists
Maria da Graça Canto Moniz, Guido Scorza, Georgios Yannopoulos, and Marta Morrás Ruiz, as well as moderator Vincenzo Zeno-Zencovich for the discussion today, and your wise words. I am so thankful to the Universidad CEU San Pablo and South EU Google Data Governance Chair for designing this panel and putting the spotlight on youth and AI Literacy.
I attended many sessions at this wonderfully planned conference, and I am heading home completely enriched with a lot of new knowledge, resources, a very long list of to-do, and super energized about the coming work. More to write on this, once I gather my thoughts.
Rafaela Nicolazzi it was so good to see you!
#euaiact #gdpr #dataprotection #privacy #informedconsent #aiethics
Center for AI and Digital Policy
Data Protection and Regulation Partner at Bird & Bird
5mo#tietosuojapäivä He goes on: „Data protection authorities should be nominated as the authorities for AI“. Not sure about that, at least not alone in my view.