Andy writes, "At the same time, it’s clear the world is nowhere near ready to regulate or create standards for these technologies."
It's not clear to me why anyone thinks we, the world as a whole, will ever be ready to regulate AI. Who would enforce such regulations? How would they enforce them??
As best I can tell, this fanciful regulation theory arises from Western intellectual and corporate elites suffering under the illusion that they will retain exclusive control of this emerging technology. Or, more cynically, maybe it's just a story being used to pacify the public while these technologies are pushed beyond the point of no return? I really don't know, as this talk of regulation and governance truly puzzles me. Are these experts aware that we can't even regulate highway tailgating in an effective manner?
The same phenomena seems to exist in the genetic engineering realm. Whenever Jennifer Doudna is asked hard questions she seems to redirect the conversation towards discussion of mythical governance schemes, which supposedly will somehow someday emerge from academic ivory tower conferences run by intellectual elites at prestigious Western institutions etc. The North Koreans will be shocked to learn that they will have no say in how they will use the genetic engineering tools that Doudna is eager to "democratize" and make available to one and all.
When those leading the AI revolution talk about regulation, governance, "aligning AI" and so forth all that accomplishes here is to make me wonder what else they're saying that I shouldn't believe.
To me, it would be far more credible to simply state the obvious that once a cat is let out of the bag it runs wild in whatever direction it wants. We're lighting another fuse underneath the knowledge explosion, and hoping that works out. Let's just say it, and own it.
If there was HI, there wouldn't be AI.
Andy writes, "At the same time, it’s clear the world is nowhere near ready to regulate or create standards for these technologies."
It's not clear to me why anyone thinks we, the world as a whole, will ever be ready to regulate AI. Who would enforce such regulations? How would they enforce them??
As best I can tell, this fanciful regulation theory arises from Western intellectual and corporate elites suffering under the illusion that they will retain exclusive control of this emerging technology. Or, more cynically, maybe it's just a story being used to pacify the public while these technologies are pushed beyond the point of no return? I really don't know, as this talk of regulation and governance truly puzzles me. Are these experts aware that we can't even regulate highway tailgating in an effective manner?
The same phenomena seems to exist in the genetic engineering realm. Whenever Jennifer Doudna is asked hard questions she seems to redirect the conversation towards discussion of mythical governance schemes, which supposedly will somehow someday emerge from academic ivory tower conferences run by intellectual elites at prestigious Western institutions etc. The North Koreans will be shocked to learn that they will have no say in how they will use the genetic engineering tools that Doudna is eager to "democratize" and make available to one and all.
When those leading the AI revolution talk about regulation, governance, "aligning AI" and so forth all that accomplishes here is to make me wonder what else they're saying that I shouldn't believe.
To me, it would be far more credible to simply state the obvious that once a cat is let out of the bag it runs wild in whatever direction it wants. We're lighting another fuse underneath the knowledge explosion, and hoping that works out. Let's just say it, and own it.