Re: https://www.hifa.org/dgroups-rss/artificial-intelligence-19-using-ai-fig...
Dear Neil,
I agree with you that misinformation or disinformation has always been there as far as mankind exist. Social media is just the fueled engine that takes things to another high. Fraud, bias, negligence and hype have always been there and the science sociologist Norbert Merton (1942) puts it well in his essay [*see below]. If AI can help to mitigate misinformation, that`s fine. Indeed AI also creates and contribute for misinformation. We should work with AI and there is no way back. Every technology comes with its side effects and the solution may still come from the same technology.
Thanks.
Dr. Armand S. NKWESCHEU,MD,MPH. Epidemiologist & Public Health Consultant - Cameroon Society of Epidemiology- CaSE ;Yaounde, Cameroon. IEA - Regional Councilor for Africa & President of AfEA-2024-27 / Ethics and Public Health Policy
" You cannot win a race focusing on the distance covered but on what lies ahead"
HIFA profile: Armand Seraphin Nkwescheu is a Public Health Consultant at the Cameroon Society of Epidemiology. Professional interests: Road traffic injury, Neglected Tropical Diseases with emphasis on snakebites and envenoming, Non communicable Diseases, Health systems and Development Evaluation. nkwesch AT yahoo.com
[*Note from HIFA moderator (NPW): 'In 1942, Robert K. Merton described four aspects of science that later came to be called Mertonian norms: "four sets of institutional imperatives taken to comprise the ethos of modern science... communism, universalism, disinterestedness, and organized skepticism".' https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mertonian_norms ]