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I'm not sure how applicable this is because of the nature of the AI beast. It took decades for asbestos to be banned and given how slow we were to collectively

• roywiggins 8y ago
  The other problem with AI is a matter of definitions- how do you even define it? Whereas it's obvious what leaded gasoline or radium watch faces are. When you've got a technique that is contained in featureless server racks and produces outputs, not substances, you can't really ban the outputs (they're just decisions) and banning the techniques is probably impossible short of melting down all the GPUs or whatever. One possibility is that a bad AI decision could create huge liability costs on whoever is running the algorithm. If the algorithm can't explain that its decision was reasonable, courts could get... testy. And that would drive people towards at least explainable AI. That is, it might end up being cheaper to have some racist employees than a big monolithic AI making racist decisions (or other human failings like being a bad driver).