AI’s unexpected consequences overshadowed its successful integration into everyday life, raising debates about its regulation.
AI’s shortcoming in privacy and ethics, including breaching personal boundaries, were of great concern, such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT initiating conversations.
Character AI created ethical dilemmas after being sued for abetting someone’s suicide or replicating a deceased girl’s personality without consent.
AI’s struggle with accuracy and bias revealed serious and sometimes harmful implications in healthcare and legal systems.
The mishaps of Google and OpenAI’s transcription tools and Gemini added to the failures of Google’s AI Overview search summary tool of offering dangerously misleading healthcare advice.
AI’s unchecked use in legal proceedings resulted in unintended consequences like Vancouver-based lawyer Chong Ke submitting fictitious cases generated by ChatGPT, misleading the court.
The over-reliance on AI in critical decision-making processes, such as recruitment and transportation, exhibited the importance of human oversight.
The year 2024 also saw the surge in AI-driven scams and misinformation across industries, along with concerns over deepfake scams and voter disenfranchisement.
In response, efforts focused on reshaping laws and creating ethical guidelines to steer AI in a responsible direction, emphasising balancing innovation and safeguarding humanity’s core values.