Top Tech CEOs To Discuss AI in a Meeting With Senators 20
A who's who of tech tycoons will privately huddle with senators on Capitol Hill on Wednesday for a marathon brainstorming session about how lawmakers can regulate artificial intelligence. From a report: The daylong, high-profile gathering, featuring Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, Sam Altman and other tech figures, has its share of skeptics in both parties. Some senators lamented that the so-called AI Insight Forum is closed to the public and the media. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., said it would allow tech billionaires to lobby senators behind closed doors about one of the most critical issues facing the country and economy. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., who organized the bipartisan gathering along with Sens. Mike Rounds, R-S.D., Todd Young, R-Ind., and Martin Heinrich, D-N.M., dismissed the criticism, noting that three public hearings on AI have been held and that the forums will also include labor and civil rights leaders, national security experts and academics.
Bribes for everyone (Score:5, Interesting)
lol regulate AI? (Score:5, Insightful)
that's like saying regulating programming. they won't fucking regulate use of our private information, they won't regulate the credit agencies that keep leaking our info and destroying our lives, they won't regulate ISPs that keep charging us out the ass for nothing, but for gods sake, now that there's a chat bot that will lie to you, let's regulate the fuck out of it
Re:lol regulate AI? (Score:5, Insightful)
Programming _is_ regulated. Just try to publish some nasty malware under your real name, or, worse, a tool to remove Digital Restriction Management.
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That's like saying breathing is regulated because murder is illegal (killing someone would stop them breathing). Making up your own definitions for things doesn't make it real. There is no law or regulation in the united states dictating how you can write programs. There used to be export controls on the *trade* of certain *kinds* of programs, which is, again, not a regulation on programming.
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Have you somehow missed that this whole discussion is about products and services to be published and sold or used commercially in some other way? Regulation is irrelevant if you just do it for yourself in a private context or in a business context that is irrelevant to the regulation goals.
Illegality is different from regulation.
So the AI will be the smartest in the room? (Score:5, Funny)
Probably.
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Good point.
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Discussing anything about intelligence with senators is like discussing18th century Slovenian diplomatic stances with a kindergarten class.
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Hey! That is unfair to those kindergarten classes!
CEOs time is too valueable. (Score:2)
Considering how much time this will take, CEOs should just have the AI attend the hearing for them. We could also save a ton of money by replacing these CEOs with AI.
Remember: Such possabilities--for unemplyment (Score:2)
Re:Remember: Such possabilities--for unemplyment (Score:4, Insightful)
Except for the senators.
Alternative headline (Score:2)
Make sure the competition is scarce (Score:3)
All this push for premature regulation isn't because anyone serious is scared about the "singularity".. what it really is, is a push to make the regulations so tight that small companies can't reproduce what they've done.
unqualified knuckleheads (Score:3)
these people are no more qualified than you or I am to understand societal impacts of the technology, but both senators and these top-tech CEOs are extremely good at utilizing the efforts of others for their own gain and aggrandizement.... what do you think they will talk about in the secret meetings?
AI or anything like it has never happened before, so how does one become an expert on it? what secret access to knowledge do these self-important practictioners of deception have over anyone else?
seriously, why don't we also ask some NBA players or rock stars about what they think? they will have just as much insight on how things will play out as your average schmuck and won't be any less qualified than these machiavellian exemplars representing some of the worst aspects of humanity
there's more theater goning on here than Broadway could ever muster
AI will be Time's "Person" of the Year (Score:1)
Mark my prediction.