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AI and Online Harms

February 28, 2024 - The US Federal Trade Commission in its report to congress June 16, 2022, posited whether AI could solve the problem of Online Harms.


The deployment of AI tools intended to detect or otherwise address harmful online content is accelerating. Largely within the confines — or via funding from — the few big technology companies that have the necessary resources and infrastructure, AI tools are being conceived, developed, and used for purposes including combat against many of the harms listed by Congress. Given the amount of online content at issue, this result appears to be inevitable, as a strictly human alternative is impossible or extremely costly at scale.


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