Who Watches the Watchman? Managing Cats, Eggplants, and AI Risks

Author(s): David Sweenor

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Claude failed to help brainstorm names for this feline. Photo courtesy of Nick J.

A couple of months back, my good friend Nick tried using generative AI to brainstorm names for his family’s new kittens. Rather than generating a list of names, Nick’s brainstorming buddy flagged the query as inappropriate due to a misunderstood context and denied Nick’s request. It was a simple ask that raised a red flag and highlighted the fact that AI can unexpectedly fail. At the time, I wasn’t too concerned, but it does open up a set of questions about reliability and oversight.

Warning: Bad puns for the image captions are coming.

Claude refuses to come up with names for Nick’s cats. This is a cat-tastrophe.

If at first you don’t succeed, you try again.

Access to server denied. This is purr-plexing.

Annoyance sets in:

Is this a meow-stake in the LLM’s guardrails?At least it’s fur-ever sorry.

As I finished reading Yuval Noah Harari’s Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI and am in the middle of Mustafa Suleyman’s The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-First Century’s Greatest Dilemma, their dystopian tone is a bit… Read the full blog for free on Medium.

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