Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. My questions will be for Dr. Maslej.
The rapid expansion and development of AI technology comes with significant risks. Chapter 3 of your AI Index report outlines some of the harms of AI technologies, including “commercial facial recognition systems that discriminate based on race, résumé screening systems that discriminate on gender, and AI-powered clinical health tools that are biased along socio-economic and racial lines. These models have been found to reflect and amplify human social biases, discriminate based on protected attributes and generate false information about the world.”
Could you please elaborate on some of these harms and risks posed by the use of AI technologies, particularly at a time when investment in and development of technologies are so rapidly accelerating?