AI glossary / Safety and trust
Transparency
Being open about when AI is being used, how it works and what data it was trained on.
More words in Safety and trust
- Voice cloningCopying someone's voice from a short recording. Useful for accessibility, and widely used in phone scams.
- WatermarkingHidden signals placed in AI-made content so it can be identified as AI-made later.
- AccountabilityBeing clear about who is responsible when an AI system gets something wrong: the maker, the company using it, or the person who relied on it.
- Adversarial attackFeeding an AI a carefully crafted input designed to fool it, such as a sticker that makes a self-driving car misread a road sign.
- AI companionA chatbot designed to act as a friend or partner. Popular, and also a concern, because people can become emotionally dependent on it.