Hub AI and society
Artificial Intelligence is a key technology that can help us solve major societal challenges such as climate change, energy supply, healthcare, education or logistics. AI can solve specific problems more effectively by supporting us in decision-making, automating solutions and thus scaling them, or discovering completely new solutions. But the use of AI also poses new risks, for example when it comes to surveillance or questions of social justice.
What is our society doing with AI – and what is AI doing to our society? We shed light on this question in our AI and Society Content Hub.
The Atlantic has developed a search tool that lets users check if their work appears in LibGen, a massive archive of pirated books, scientific papers, and articles that was reportedly used to train language models. According to court documents, Meta used the LibGen dataset to train its Llama models. OpenAI told Gizmodo that LibGen content is not included in the current versions of ChatGPT or in OpenAI's API. Other AI companies have not yet commented on whether they used LibGen data in their training. Microsoft recently began offering book licensing deals to publishers.
