Training data access

Replying quickly to both of you because I deeply sympathize with where you’re coming from: access to data is necessary to understand and modify how many AI systems work. That’s a large boulder and to move the conversation forward, we need to

The next question is:

  • What about AI systems where data is not available, like those trained with federated learning or other privacy-preserving data-sharing techniques?

and more:

  • What does “access to data” mean exactly and why is it necessary?

For example, the question of data is starting to emerge from the ongoing exercise to review specific systems. Check Should testing data be made available to *use* an AI system?