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Surely AI Safety Legislation Is A No-Brainer | Radical Silicon Valley libertarianism is forcing us all to take on unnecessary risks, and the new technology is badly in need of regulation.
Radical Silicon Valley libertarianism is forcing us all to take on unnecessary risks, and the new technology is badly in need of regulation.
But as I’ve actually used some of the various technologies lumped together as “artificial intelligence,” over and over my reaction has been: “Jesus, this stuff is actually very powerful… and this is only the beginning.” I think many of my fellow leftists tend to have a dismissive attitude toward AI’s capabilities, delighting in its failures (ChatGPT’s basic math errors and “hallucinations,” the ugliness of much AI-generated “art,” badly made hands from image generators, etc.). Lovely notes that this bill attracted “strange bedfellows,” with labor unions, Jane Fonda, Elon Musk, a number of AI company employees, and the effective altruists in favor of it, and Google, Nancy Pelosi, and Ro Khanna against it. I’m more excited by AI than a lot of people in my orbit, but I’m also deeply alarmed by the fact that we are heading into a future with a virtually unregulated, incredibly powerful technology being developed by companies that have no incentive to think long-term about the potential disastrous consequences of their actions.
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