In principle, AI regulation sounds like the type of coordination problem that governments were designed to solve.
In practice… I once saw a clip of a US senator bringing in a snowball from outside the building to show that global warming wasn’t real. And that’s just the tip of the iceberg (pun intended) for the pretty egregious level of, i don’t even know what to call it, childishness I guess, of lots of the people in power.
And that’s just the incompetence side, not even mentioning the grift side.
With the current state of our legal institutions, I’m not sure we’d actually be better off with any regulation. I could be wrong, but I highly doubt there’d be a net benefit, and wouldn’t be surprised if it ends up actually benefitting the worst actors.
I can’t even imagine what a conversation trying to explain alignment tax to a legal body would look like.
In principle, AI regulation sounds like the type of coordination problem that governments were designed to solve.
In practice… I once saw a clip of a US senator bringing in a snowball from outside the building to show that global warming wasn’t real. And that’s just the tip of the iceberg (pun intended) for the pretty egregious level of, i don’t even know what to call it, childishness I guess, of lots of the people in power.
And that’s just the incompetence side, not even mentioning the grift side.
With the current state of our legal institutions, I’m not sure we’d actually be better off with any regulation. I could be wrong, but I highly doubt there’d be a net benefit, and wouldn’t be surprised if it ends up actually benefitting the worst actors.
I can’t even imagine what a conversation trying to explain alignment tax to a legal body would look like.