Don’t throw the AI baby out with the data leakage bath water: Reading “AI Snake Oil” with a spirit of optimism
The privacy-cyber world seems preoccupied with issues related to the nexus between personal data and AI. Those issues, although important, are dwarfed by a more pressing and fundamental question: can we get AI to do useful things reliably and accurately in the realm of predicting significant human outcomes, such as health, criminal propensity, credit risk etc. (“Predictive AI”)?