We Don't Need No Stinkin' AI Regulations

 

Closing the Garage Door After the Ferrari Escaped


"Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer is taking early steps toward legislation to regulate artificial intelligence technology:"  Axios Solender and Gold Report

 I’m still gaga on the outbursting of AI chatbots.  When I saw this, methought:


Two things:  About time! …and,   Good luck with that!

The genie is out of the bottle. It has proliferated already. It has all the signs of a god of chaos. 
Have I got some chaos for you.


I’m still optimistic, irrational as that may be. We are still surviving The Bomb. Yuk, yuk.

Rrrreg-u-late!










Chuck Schumer is a smart guy, but he should be launching Senate investigations into how we are going to cope with the societal shocks AI has in store for us. When 100,000 law clerks lose their jobs, the news will probably punch through into Senate consciousness.  When years of thousands of devout astronomy fans volunteering hours to Galaxy Zoo et al are surpassed and improved upon by an AI in less than 30 minutes, what does that do to their sense of accomplishment and feeling of contribution? How will I feel when AI writes sci-fi novels much better than mine, and can crank them out by the bushel? (Not the biggest threat, but…)  This “AI can do it better” thang is going to have real impact on the classes of people it affects. 

Plumbers, not so much at first, maybe never. 

The core Workforce, the people whose jobs can’t be “automated” will become our primary productive population  — for a while. 'White Collar' will begin to mean 'AI can do it better, and much cheaper.' This catastrophe will come upon us sneakily, so slow that it will only make the news occasionally, sort of like climate change news. When the lead story is “Another quarter million white collar workers lost their jobs today…” it will be like “Inflation is up another quarter point today…” 

Only when you and three members of your family get ousted by AIs, will it really come home.  At that point you —or I — will ask, “Why didn’t we plan for this?"

So Chuck Schumer and company should be trying to get ahead of this tsunami rather than trying to write some regs for AI. IMHO.


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