Opinion: The federal government is not going to come up with a framework or guardrails to protect us from AI anytime soon.
And yet the more people talk about this — about federal regulation and oversight, specifically, as a kind of must-have and last line of defense, as it were, to protect us from the negative consequences of AI — the more I’m convinced that it’s basically a pipe dream.
I’ll grant you, maybe this kind of cynicism is a function of getting older.
At one point during his appearance, Altman respond affirmatively to a Senator who wondered whether something like the Nuclear Regulatory Commission might be a model for how AI could be regulated. Other Senators pointed to the FDA as a potential model. Really? The same FDA responsible for the drug-approval process taking as much as 15 years, that progress-killing FDA?
Generally-speaking, the federal government is a morbidly obese behemoth where progress and good results go to die, a house of cards that’s unaccountable for its failures and whose successes are few but which nonetheless hoovers up tax revenue like water in the desert.
I personally think some of the fears about AI — specifically, regarding worker displacement and other dark worries about how the technology might change our world — might be a little overblown. But I’ll be surprised if we all make it to the other side of our brave new AI world unscathed, thanks largely or in part to help from Uncle Sam.
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