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A question for everyone who is saying that #AI must be regulated (a) soon, and (b) by the Government rather than self-regulation; #BigAI

2023-05-15 07:28:11+00:00

There are a bunch of people who are opining off-of the attached tweet; critical opinions generally can be characterised along the lines of:

the tech industry cannot police itself / look at the history of social media / facebook was bad, this will be worse / the internet is bad / imagine if airlines ran the aviation regulators / regulation is fine so long as you get independent experts to help it along / only lunatics should run asylums / it’s like oil-tobacco-asbestos all over again / white male privilege incarnate / even they don’t know how it works / jurassic park with terminators / …

So: back in the 1990s I watched Governments hand down regulations on cryptography, only for them to be infuriated when the proposed regulations flopped, or as/when open source communities blew straight past those regulations.

AI technologies are going to be open-source, ubiquitous and home-deployed. What will happen if/when open-source AI projects do the same to this fresh hell of regulation?

To be frank: I feel that a lot of this is not about AI, instead it’s about “#BigAI” and corporations. I have written at length elsewhere about the foolishness of regulating the shape of code; it would be wise for folk now to stop attempting that, and instead to regulate intents and outcomes, because “regulations on AI” are not going to go anywhere than cack-handed repression of software projects.
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