A few weeks before ChatGPT’s release, I published an essay about possible paths for AI regulation. Now seems like a good time to revisit it and gauge where we stand with regard to AI risk, since ChatGPT, Sydney/Bing, and Bard have lots of people talking about it.
My opinion is there are an awful lot of things like AI we can worry about. The planet is simply configured whereby cooperation of the sort required is an illusion. As tough as it sounds, we are in a position to merely hope for the best. There are lots of governmental systems for whom cooperation and consensus is nearly impossible. Here at home in the US, the reality is via courts and philosophy we've empowered corporations to exceed the power of nation-states almost without consequence. Our "best" hope upon which we gamble our future is that multi-nationals will discover solutions with such great ROI we will adopt them as a means to deal with problems of all sorts. Beyond that we have little or no say at all. AI is merely the latest in a series of things we hope our next innovation will keep up with unitended consequences of the last innovation. The behavior of Airbus and their internal controls HAVE NO IMPACT on the latest debacle at Boeing. This is the system we believe in and stake our future on.
My opinion is there are an awful lot of things like AI we can worry about. The planet is simply configured whereby cooperation of the sort required is an illusion. As tough as it sounds, we are in a position to merely hope for the best. There are lots of governmental systems for whom cooperation and consensus is nearly impossible. Here at home in the US, the reality is via courts and philosophy we've empowered corporations to exceed the power of nation-states almost without consequence. Our "best" hope upon which we gamble our future is that multi-nationals will discover solutions with such great ROI we will adopt them as a means to deal with problems of all sorts. Beyond that we have little or no say at all. AI is merely the latest in a series of things we hope our next innovation will keep up with unitended consequences of the last innovation. The behavior of Airbus and their internal controls HAVE NO IMPACT on the latest debacle at Boeing. This is the system we believe in and stake our future on.