FTC chair Lina Khan warns AI could ‘turbocharge’ fraud and scams

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Cnn
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Tools of artificial intelligence such as Chatgpt could lead to a “turbocompression” of consumer damage, including fraud and scams, and the American government has a substantial power to repress the damage of consumers focused on AI under the existing law, members of the Federal Commerce Commission said on Tuesday.

Addressing the chamber legislators, the president of the FTC, Lina Khan, said that the “turbocharger of fraud and the scams which could be activated by these tools are a serious concern”.

In recent months, a new generation of AI tools has drawn attention to their ability to generate emails, stories and convincing trials as well as images, audio and videos. Although these tools have the potential to change the way people work and create, some have also raised concerns about how they could be used to deceive by usurting the identity of individuals.

Even if political decision -makers through the federal government debate the promotion of specific AI rules, invoking concerns concerning any problems of algorithmic and confidentiality discrimination, companies could still face the FTC surveys today in the context of a range of laws that have been on books for years, said Khan and his colleagues commissioners.

“Throughout the history of the FTC, we had to adapt our application to the evolution of technology,” said FTC commissioner Rebecca Slaughter. “Our obligation is to do what we have always done, that is to say to apply the tools we have to these changing technologies … [and] Not being frightened by this idea that this is a new revolutionary technology. »»

FTC commissioner Alvaro Bedoya said that companies cannot escape responsibility simply by saying that their algorithms are a black box.

“Our staff constantly affirms that our unjust and deceptive authority authority applies, our laws on civil rights, equitable credit, the equal opportunities of credit law, those that apply,” said Bedoya. “There is a law, and companies will have to respect this.”

The FTC previously published public councils in -depth to AI companies, and the agency received a request for an investigation into OPENAI last month on complaints according to which the company behind Chatgpt has misleading consumers of the capacity and limits of the tool.