AI safety epitomizes one of the biggest challenges in legislating in a democratic society. It’s generally considered a worst practice to legislate on hypotheticals. The legislation almost always fails to address the actual problems when the situation goes wrong and lawmakers have alienated industry and the electorate simultaneously. Effective regulation will only come after something has gone pear shaped.
Until that happens, the environmental concerns and subsidization costs around AI are legitimate safety issues that are well suited to regulation. Those are also issues that voters already understand. Trying to convince people the AI that can’t do grammar level geography or answer simple questions correctly is poised to destroy civilization is an uphill climb. The general public is overwhelmingly unimpressed by AI, and do not feel threatened. Stability of riparian rights and utility rates have much of North America concerned.
AI safety epitomizes one of the biggest challenges in legislating in a democratic society. It’s generally considered a worst practice to legislate on hypotheticals. The legislation almost always fails to address the actual problems when the situation goes wrong and lawmakers have alienated industry and the electorate simultaneously. Effective regulation will only come after something has gone pear shaped.
Until that happens, the environmental concerns and subsidization costs around AI are legitimate safety issues that are well suited to regulation. Those are also issues that voters already understand. Trying to convince people the AI that can’t do grammar level geography or answer simple questions correctly is poised to destroy civilization is an uphill climb. The general public is overwhelmingly unimpressed by AI, and do not feel threatened. Stability of riparian rights and utility rates have much of North America concerned.