AI Should Also Learn To Forget

Author(s): Benson Ruan

Originally published on Towards AI.

Forgetting is not limited to humans alone, it should also apply to AI

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People have the right to be forgotten on the Internet, but what about in the presence of artificial intelligence? Artificial intelligence should also learn to “forget”, and not just for privacy reasons.

Both big data and artificial intelligence have memories — and these memories can be quite persistent. While this long-term “memory” has brought some conveniences, it has also raised concerns about privacy.

One year ago, when the European Union enacted the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), one of the most revolutionary aspects of the regulation was the “right to be forgotten” — a right that is… Read the full blog for free on Medium.

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