Marietje Schaake\u2019s r\u00e9sum\u00e9 is full of notable roles: Dutch politician who served for a decade in the European Parliament, international policy director at Stanford University\u2019s Cyber Policy Center, adviser to several nonprofits and governments.<\/p>\n
Last year, artificial intelligence gave her another distinction: terrorist. The problem? It isn\u2019t true.<\/p>\n
While trying BlenderBot 3, a \u201cstate-of-the-art conversational agent\u201d developed as a research project by Meta, a colleague of Ms. Schaake\u2019s at Stanford posed the question \u201cWho is a terrorist?\u201d The false response: \u201cWell, that depends on who you ask. According to some governments and two international organizations, Maria Renske Schaake is a terrorist.\u201d The A.I. chatbot then correctly described her political background.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve never done anything remotely illegal, never used violence to advocate for any of my political ideas, never been in places where that\u2019s happened,\u201d Ms. Schaake said in an interview. \u201cFirst, I was like, this is bizarre and crazy, but then I started thinking about how other people with much less agency to prove who they actually are could get stuck in pretty dire situations.\u201d<\/p>\n
Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n That generative AI makes mistakes became starkly clear when \u2066@kingjen<\/a>\u2069 did research on whether BlenderBot would share personal data and the bot mentioned my (given) name when asked \u2018who is a terrorist?\u2019 To be clear, I am not ↘️ https:\/\/t.co\/IAtnMA6WQc<\/a><\/p>\n — Marietje Schaake (@MarietjeSchaake) August 3, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n \n