Artificial Intelligence and deprotection

The use of Artificial Intelligence (AI), and the technology industry’s race for AI, has put the spotlight on this evolution of technology.

Who hasn’t used an AI-enabled device or tool and ChatGPT?

Today, it is almost a fact that we have all tried ChatGPT, if only out of curiosity. However, and once our curiosity is satisfied, we should think about some other issues that are directly related to the use of AI, such as the ones we now tell you about.

Description of Artificial Intelligence

AI is described by the European Parliament as “the ability of a machine to display the same capabilities as humans, such as reasoning, learning, creativity and the ability to plan”. In other words, it is the simulation of our capabilities, but carried out by machines.

Based on this concept, the benefits of AI are countless. For our lives today and in the future, technology occupies a predominant place, because our societies can no longer be understood without this digital transformation that surrounds us and that must be applied within certain parameters, to be set by law.

Currently, the proposal for the Artificial Intelligence Regulation, which will regulate a European legal framework for trustworthy and data protection-compliant AI, is already underway at the European level.

Most frequent areas of use of AI

Well, the answer is not easy as Artificial Intelligence is increasingly present in our daily acts, as well as in the most complex ones, such as the fields of health research and cybersecurity.

In our day to day life, some examples where we use Artificial Intelligence are:

Smartphones:

It would be the number 1 without a doubt!!!! for example to make quick searches from the assistants already integrated in the phones themselves, such as Siri for Apple or Google Assistant for Android.

Internet shopping:

Gathering information about our tastes and offering us products according to them, often involves the participation of AI to analyze all that data.

Voice assistants:

Our voice, in addition to being a personal data, serves us to communicate but also to do things, such as turn on and off the lights in our house, search for information, make a call, play music or any other function contained in the smart speaker that we have at home or in our workplace.

Publicity in the RRSS:

Every search we do on our social networks, or every like we give to a publication, generates a story about our preferences, information that can be fully evaluated by companies that want to offer us their products according to our tastes.

Chatbots:

These new assistants are part of our daily life, since we can find them in all kinds of web pages or chats, ready to answer all our questions without rest.

What are the risks of AI?

Much has already been said on this subject, because every day that passes, we find new applications of this “non-human intelligence” that can jeopardize our own way of life.

What has been most talked about is the consequence of the increased control of people through Artificial Intelligence. The ability to process so much information, as well as infinite search sources, interrelated with all our information that companies already have today, the one that surfs the Internet and so on, AI can become a colossus against which there is no opponent.

Others have spoken of the end or sunset of certain human skills, as Artificial Intelligence would replace it, limiting the margin of error or inefficiency.

The research developed so far on the subject, in the face of the risks already identified by the use of AI (which is already massive today), strongly suggests that this path towards a “powerful intelligence” should be slow and reliable, in order to minimize risks and not to cross certain limits (letter signed by Elon Musk and others).

The most controversial Artificial Intelligence

The most visible example of this unhindered race is present in the famous ChatGPT.

ChatGPT is a Large Language Model (LLM) developed by OpenAI, which has been trained with an exorbitant amount of information to generate clear and rich answers on the topics you want to ask. Its creators have been evolving this AI tool until reaching its most developed version, GPT-4.

But Europe is already expressing doubts about the use of ChatGPT. Italy and Spain have already started their race to investigate ChatGPT, as there are reasonable doubts about whether this tool complies with the European data protection requirements that every company must follow if it carries out any processing of personal data, as is the case here.

Italy has already taken a step forward, as the authority responsible for personal data in that country has ordered to temporarily limit the use of the tool as a result of the processing of Italian users’ data, finding possible breaches of data protection regulations (unlawful processing of data and identification of use by minors).

Spain, through the AEPD, announced on April 13 that it has initiated an investigation into OpenAI for possible breaches of the regulations, and requested the European Data Protection Committee to create a working group on this issue, which was approved in session on April 13 of this year, with the aim of generating harmonized responses from Europe in this regard.

Recommendations for reliable use of AI

Like everything in life, there are good and bad things, therefore, depending on the use we make of things, they will go from being good to bad and vice versa.

The first thing to say is that the use we should make of Artificial Intelligence should be positive and focused on making things better, easier, faster and more practical, always respecting others and the set of rules that govern us.

On another side, recommendations for use of any AI would be:

–Neverprovide sensitive, banking or health data while using this type of tools.

–Do notshare confidential or private information.

–Usethese resources from an ethical perspective.

The good use of technology will make us more efficient, but whether it is constructive or destructive also depends on who uses it.

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