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I think analogy with medicine is fruitful. Small molecules can't be held responsible either, but they can be recalled from market and they do. Our pharmacology
by sanxiyn 4y ago
I think analogy with medicine is fruitful. Small molecules can't be held responsible either, but they can be recalled from market and they do. Our pharmacology isn't good enough to design, say, vaccine that works worse for Asians, but we did require clinical trial participants to be a representative sample. Medicine is also mass produced, that's why there is post-market surveillance to catch rare side effects missed in clinical trials.
Even with all this analogy, we don't insist medicine should have known mechanism of action, although we do prefer it. So I think we will regulate models with recalls, testing standards, monitoring etc, but won't insist on understanding.
By the way, don't we already have widely deployed models, such as PhotoDNA, which supposedly removes millions of images a year to filter child pornography? I wonder how it was evaluated to be suitable for deployment.