Amid all the talk of generative AI tools, agents and autonomous robots at South by Southwest, the inventor of the World Wide Web raised a simple point that developers will have to grapple with if the vision of AI everywhere is to come to life.
“The question is, who does it work for?” Tim Berners-Lee said Tuesday during a panel otherwise focused on robotics at the Austin, Texas, conference.
Trust in AI systems such as chatbots has been a focal point of discussions at SXSW this year. That includes conversations around the use of synthetic data and ways to regulate the AI industry.
Berners-Lee’s question drove to the heart of the issue: A company can make its AI models reliable, accurate and unbiased. But because they were created by large corporations, there will always be…