AI Do Not Consent So-called “automated decision-making” is being heralded as the next big thing — but it turns out that many consumers are disgusted by the idea of AI making choices for them. As the Electronic Frontier Foundation recently highlighted, a Consumer Reports survey this summer found that a broad majority of American respondents aren’t comfortable with AI making decisions about job hiring, banking, renting, medical diagnoses, and surveillance. Of the more than 2,000 people CR surveyed, a whopping 72 percent said they’d be “uncomfortable” having AI scan their faces and answers during job interviews, and 45 percent said they were “very uncomfortable” with the concept. When it comes to banking, meanwhile, roughly two-thirds of respondents said they weren’t comfortable with financial institutions using AI to determine if they were eligible for loans. That same percentage said they were uncomfortable with landlords using AI to decide whether they were eligible as renters, and nearly 40 percent said they were “very uncomfortable” with that potential application. More than half of those 2,000 Americans also said they were uncomfortable with AI facial recognition surveillance, and about one-third of those respondents said they were “very uncomfortable” with it. When asked whether they would be comfortable with AI being used in medical diagnosing and treatment planning, half said they were not. And a whopping majority of the people surveyed by CR — some 83 percent — said they would want to know what data the algorithms making decisions about them was trained on,…Americans Absolutely Detest AI That Makes Decisions for Them