{"id":66058,"date":"2023-05-15T07:28:11","date_gmt":"2023-05-15T07:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alecmuffett.com\/?p=66058"},"modified":"2023-05-15T07:33:52","modified_gmt":"2023-05-15T07:33:52","slug":"a-question-for-everyone-who-is-saying-that-ai-must-be-regulated-a-soon-and-b-by-the-government-rather-than-self-regulation-bigai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alecmuffett.com\/article\/66058","title":{"rendered":"A question for everyone who is saying that #AI must be regulated (a) soon, and (b) by the Government rather than self-regulation; #BigAI"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

There are a bunch of people who are opining off-of the attached tweet; critical opinions generally can be characterised<\/a> along the lines of:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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 \/ \u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

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

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<\/a>; it would be wise for folk now <\/strong>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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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WATCH: Former Google CEO @ericschmidt<\/a> tells #MTP<\/a> Reports the companies developing AI should be the ones to establish industry guardrails \u2014 not policy makers.

\u201cThere\u2019s no way a non-industry person can understand what\u2019s possible.\u201d pic.twitter.com\/Z2bBRJwpR9<\/a><\/p>— Meet the Press (@MeetThePress) May 14, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote>