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Americans Want To Regulate AI But Don't Trust Anyone To Do It (technologyreview.com)
An anonymous reader shares a report: In 2018, several high-profile controversies involving AI served as a wake-up call for technologists, policymakers, and the public. The technology may have brought us welcome advances in many fields, but it can also fail catastrophically when built shoddily or applied carelessly. It's hardly a surprise, then, that Americans have mixed support for the continued development of AI and overwhelmingly agree that it should be regulated, according to a new study from the Center for the Governance of AI and Oxford University's Future of Humanity Institute. These are important lessons for policymakers and technologists to consider in the discussion on how best to advance and regulate AI, says Allan Dafoe, director of the center and coauthor of the report. "There isn't currently a consensus in favor of developing advanced AI, or that it's going to be good for humanity," he says. "That kind of perception could lead to the development of AI being perceived as illegitimate or cause political backlashes against the development of AI."
Create an AI to regulator!
My vote goes to John Connor!
REGULATORS!!!!
I propose that AI be thrown in a walled garden, and let's make Apple pay for it.
"That's the way to do it" - Punch
Count me as one of them and I was a CS major. Seems like everything is lumped in with AI now.
Does this mean Americans are getting wise to the con of continuous and benevolent progress?
Pics or it never happened.
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What is with all the AI nutters here? Do people really think AI exists? I am sure that "Center for the Governance of AI and Oxford University's Future of Humanity Institute." wants to regulate it, it means money for them and it beats having to get a real job. Here is a big shocker: AI doesn't exist. Siri, et al are just voice recognition systems hooked up to a database with a voice synthesizer. All of this stuff has been around.
I just wrote a hello world neural network and didn't register it with the government! Did I just commit a felony?
Only outlaws will have AI.
AI is software so is not that hard for someone with a bit of money to get hold of and use. Yes: you need some expertise, software can be copied & modified to taste, the hardware is cheap & readily available. Who do they want to stop getting hold of it ? Easily obtainable & affordable by governments, terrorists & Bond villains.
They are already the de facto government of computing.
Ban all AI research until we understand how to do it without being shitbags (e.g. after we've reached post-scarcity and won't be "trusting" megacorps not to try to enslave it,) if other countries research it nuke them, without mercy, just wipe out every single citizen they have. There's no way to morally develop AI in the modern world, it simply shouldn't be done. When we're able (psychologically, culturally, economically, AND practically) to do it and treat it no differently from a person we'll be ready, until then slaughter anyone who attempts it.
There's not even standardized definitions of AI internals yet so I'm not sure how you write regulations that could easily be understood by those implementing the AI to begin with.
Sure there's the old "don't be evil" (we see how that turned out) and non-military AI shouldn't kill but beyond that? So long as they're still subject to the laws and regulations of what a normal human would be doing that the AI replaces I'm not sure there's much else that can be done currently
AIs should not cold call people after 8pm in their timezone.
AIs should always say please and thank you
I'm flashing back to that scene in Robocop 2 after the civics board got done adding 100 "prime" directives to his software.
It doesn't help that the media (and politicians) in their ignorance and quest for hyperbole have begun referring to anything done via software as AI.
What could possibly go wrong there...
I just wrote a hello world pubic network and didn't register it with the government! Did I just commit a felony?
Now that might get you into trouble . . . especially when you display it at your local mall.
Schroedinger's Brexit: The UK is both in and out of the EU at the same time!
General Brewster is all over this.
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regulate something. Always have studies saying "Everyone wants and agrees that X should be regulated" IE Controlled by government!
;).
So the "Center for the Governance of AI" says Americans want AI regulated.
What a crock, most Americans are trying to figure out how to play some game on their phone or get their Alexa, etc to do something that will be fun for about 5 minutes. And they are often not able to figure it out.
Just my 2 cents
...the AI regulates you!
Just get over your irrational fear of regulations. If you don't trust the government you voted for to come up with reasonable regulation, maybe it's time you started looking at yourselves and who you vote for and why you vote (or, don't, in both cases). It's your own fucking fault if you vote based on a candidate's likeability rather than realability.
Those who do not learn from commit history are doomed to regress it.
Someone should tell Trump he's been wrong then. I thought American's hated regulations more then anything else.
The term AI is confusing. They should have asked individually about: face recognition, self driving cars, automated shops, machine translation, voice assistants, ML based genetic research, content recommendation/filtering systems and so on. Then people would have given more precise answers. But if you frame it with the term AI, people think Terminator and Skynet.
This is at least partially the result of tech company scandals as of late. Can anyone really vouch for Facebook to write laws regulating this research when considering how the company kept a whitelist of clients exempt from their privacy standards? Microsoft and google for profitting off of building surveillance tools for agencies for profit? The doom-and-gloom predictions made by rich technocrats posing themselves as quasi-religious prophets telling us to either fear or worship AIs as deities; ironic considering the atheism of many of these demagogues.
Tech really needs to start disassociating themselves from the weirdoes and focus on regaining the trust of the public if it wants to let the public trust them to regulate AI. There isnt much positive pr coming from the tech industry these days, so perhaps its time they disrupt themselves, otherwise someone else will.
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I refuse to sign
But we need to invent the time machine first, otherwise Kyle Reese will never make it back in time to be the father of John Conner!
Is this heading toward a Roseanne/Terminator crossover?
Some SF works have solved the space part of spacetime travel by requiring the vehicle to rest on the ground, thereby remaining coupled to the destination through gravity and friction. These include at least H. G. Wells's The Time Machine and Shane Carruth's Primer.