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I worry that this is self serving and more about regulatory capture than human extinction. Regulating AI right now in the wrong way could put a halt to the incr
by xrd 3y ago
I worry that this is self serving and more about regulatory capture than human extinction. Regulating AI right now in the wrong way could put a halt to the incredible innovation happening in the open source world. I doubt that US regulators will know how to regulate it and will make it so small startups cannot compete with giants like OpenAI, Google, Facebook and their cadre of lawyers.
Is this really a worry about extinction of shareholder equity? /s
- cyanydeez 3y agoI think it's entirely about ignoring today's actual risks: using AI to continue social discrimination, wealth aggregation and displacing workers (ie, writers guild). They want large-scale focus to ignore where AI will reinforce power imbalance
- avmich 3y agoWhy entirely? You don't allow the possibility that AI can genuinely present more severe or urgent problems if left unaddressed in a timely fashion? I think all will agree that there are other problems in this world, but dismissing a newly present problem just because your hands already seem full doesn't look like a best approach. Ignoring and disregarding new achievements of technical progress has enough of a history, and in some important cases those ignorant were clearly proven wrong. Can't we both walk the AI problems and chew the gum of existing issues around us?
- cyanydeez 3y agoThe short term impacts are ignored because modern business is supposed to improve society. Most AI in public display is geared to cause further wealth inequality. So focusing on the existential is a marketing gimmick. Like, "don't worry, we just need to fix the heat death of the universe problem."