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- Author, Rebecca Thorn
- Author's title, BBC 100 women
He does mathematics tasks. You can answer the questions of a job interview. It can even act like your therapist. Artificial intelligence (AI) seems to be able to do everything with simply squeezing a button.
Technology is evolving at an unprecedented speed, with the different platforms that compete between them by launching new and more advanced tools.
Chatgpt is one of the technology applications that have grown more quickly in history. It reached more than a million users in just five days after its launch, and 100 million users in two months, according to a report commissioned by the Global Meeting on Artificial Intelligence of 2023 International AI Safety Report) established by the governments of 30 countries and members of the UN, EU and the OECD.
Microsoft, who launched its assistant to the Co-Pilot in 2023, announced that it hopes that the income of their AI company will exceed US $ 10,000 million for the second quarter of 2025, in addition to the expansion of its data centers to 60 regions around the world.
On the other hand, Overview, the AI of Google, which offers summaries generated by it at the beginning of the search results, registered 1.5 billion uses in more than 200 countries and territories, according to L succinity Pichai, executive director of Alphabet, the Google parent company.
Experts claim that technology is here to stay, so we ask one of them how to get the best out of it.
The Canadian computer scientist Sasha Luccioni is the head in Hugging Face climate philanthropic matters, a global emerging company that works with open source AI models that seeks “democratize good automatic learning.”
“I see the AI as an amplifier – both good as the bad of humanity – but we need to make sure we will keep control,” 100 women told BBC program.
Here are four questions that she suggests that you should consider before using.
1. What is the best AI tool for your needs?
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All systems are able to do very different things, says Luccioni.
“Sometimes we opt for the most popular tools of AI because we know them and can do many things, but frequently there are also some that have the purpose of doing specific tasks, such as answering scientific questions, which could do a better job.”
All the time are launching more applications, individualized for a variety of needs, large and small.
An app allows users to simply take a photo of a mathematics problem and solve it. Another app, more specific, offers to analyze your mother mass bread to improve the recipe, while another generates personalized sentences based on a range of sacred texts.
According to Report 2025 AI Index Report of Stanford University, US -based institutions produced 40 highlights of the highlights last year, compared to the 15 of China and three in Europe.
Find out what is on offer in that area and make your selection according to your needs.
2. Can you trust the AI responses?
The AI could give you an answer, but it is not necessarily accurate or true, says Luccioni.
“The AI models can invent things that do not exist, just because they sound likely. That can generate many problems when you use them for work or school,” he says.
To avoid that, she recommends always reviewing the results of AI systems.
“Resert in detail and critically think about what they are saying and if it makes sense. AI may sound safe and still wrong.”
3. What information am I sharing?
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Users should think about the information they are entering in an AI model, as much as the information that comes out of this, the expert indicates.
AI systems work around the collection of huge amounts of data and use them to train the model. This means that the information you put, be it a photo or text, could be stored, analyzed and used by the system to influence future responses.
Each platform has its own privacy policy, so make sure your conditions before using it.
“If they are personal or sensitive data or simply embarrassing, do not introduce them into the AI model because they could end on the Internet,” adds Luccioni.
She points out the Meta APP, where some users did not know that her consultations were being published in a “Discover” public data feeding system.
The BBC found examples of people carrying photos of exam questions of the school or the university, requesting sexual images and asking for advice on their gender identity.
In 2023, Italy became the first country in the West in blocking the chatbot Chatgpt advanced due to privacy and compliance issues with the General Data Protection Regulations.
South Korea, Australia and the US chatbot Chinese, store and process user data.
4. Does I really need?
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Use AI as a tool, not as a substitute for your brain, says Luccioni.
Consider if this is a task that you could do independently, or using other suitable tools, such as a calculator for complex mathematical problems.
He also recommends using people around us to help us with ethical and personal matters.
“AI cannot make decisions based on human values such as what is good, what is evil, what is ethical in a particular situation, and we should not let it make such decisions,” he warns.
IA also uses much more energy and resources than traditional search engines. The data centers where the computer servers are used by AI require large volumes of water to cool them, which could worsen water supply problems around the world.
“IA tools will definitely exist for a good time, especially because we are increasingly present and active on the Internet and social networks,” says Luccioni.
“But that does not mean that we must use AI for everything in our lives, which would make us lose precisely what makes us human in the first place: creativity, connection and community.”
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