Police in England and Wales told to halt AI use in court statements
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#2At nearly £500 a year is an FT subscription worth it? Am I going to get invaluable stock tips that will cover the sub?!
Re: Police in England and Wales told to halt AI use in court statements
#3> [...] he had intervened at forces that were deploying commercially available AI tools before they had been properly assessed [...] “All forces have got a good policy on the use of Copilot,” Murray said. “All forces will have a policy that says, ‘Check everything that it produces’.”
Not only are they using AI before they've properly assessed them, they also end up using Copilot which must be one of the worse AIs currently available, probably because of existing Microsoft relations. And on top of all that, they hope to be able to rely on "Please review the outputs" which obviously isn't an actual solution here, of course people will get complacent and throw stuff over the wall whenever they can.
Re: Police in England and Wales told to halt AI use in court statements
#4At nearly £500 a year is an FT subscription worth it? Am I going to get invaluable stock tips that will cover the sub?!
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#5At nearly £500 a year is an FT subscription worth it? Am I going to get invaluable stock tips that will cover the sub?!
Speaking as someone who subscribed earlier this year, the Lex column does provide subtle stock tips, but my real interest in it is the fact that it’s aimed at people who have a financial interest in accurate news, so the reporting doesn’t veer off into pushing moralistic narratives like other UK news sources.
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#6At nearly £500 a year is an FT subscription worth it? Am I going to get invaluable stock tips that will cover the sub?!
I was granted a free subscription to the FT when I was at grad school 9 years ago, surprisingly it still continues to work to this day…
Re: Police in England and Wales told to halt AI use in court statements
#7At nearly £500 a year is an FT subscription worth it? Am I going to get invaluable stock tips that will cover the sub?!
I was granted a free subscription to the FT when I was at grad school 9 years ago, surprisingly it still continues to work to this day…
How much did you pay for grad school? ;)
Re: Police in England and Wales told to halt AI use in court statements
#8At nearly £500 a year is an FT subscription worth it? Am I going to get invaluable stock tips that will cover the sub?!
You can usually find a way to get it for free or cheaper through a library, other institution or your employer if working in the financial sector or education.
Re: Police in England and Wales told to halt AI use in court statements
#9> [...] he had intervened at forces that were deploying commercially available AI tools before they had been properly assessed [...] “All forces have got a good policy on the use of Copilot,” Murray said. “All forces will have a policy that says, ‘Check everything that it produces’.” Not only are they using AI before they've properly assessed them, they also end up using Copilot which must be one of the worse AIs cur…
> on top of all that, they hope to be able to rely on "Please review the outputs" which obviously isn't an actual solution here, of course people will get complacent and throw stuff over the wall whenever they can.
This is honestly the fundamental problem of AI as I see it
When we offload our work to a different person we can calibrate our expectations to our past experiences with that person. With AI the experience is not very consistent. To use AI effectively you basically should treat it as a low trust, brand new coworker every single time you use it
That doesn't really scale, so people have two choices: be constantly hyper vigilant for mistakes the AI makes, or become complacent and trust it more than they should
People rightly point out that humans make mistakes too, not just AI. But humans have a pretty manageable cap on the amount of output they can produce. One human can pretty thoroughly review the outputs of a small team of other humans
One human can't possibly thoroughly review the volume of output that an LLM they are prompting can produce
Re: Police in England and Wales told to halt AI use in court statements
#10> [...] he had intervened at forces that were deploying commercially available AI tools before they had been properly assessed [...] “All forces have got a good policy on the use of Copilot,” Murray said. “All forces will have a policy that says, ‘Check everything that it produces’.” Not only are they using AI before they've properly assessed them, they also end up using Copilot which must be one of the worse AIs cur…
The mindset must be that if you use AI (which I happen to advocate for) you are also responsible for the output, if you use the output publicly. AI is obviously very powerful if used responsibly - the human is responsible for it once it is used - however it’s used.