Full disclosure: I'm a private lobbyist for #AIRegulation. I talk to politicians about regulating AI. Here's my word/world.
The six stages of coming to terms with AI:
1/ Ignorance
2/ Derision ("lol, stochastic parrot")
3/ Dismissal
4/ Incongruence ("Wait, it can do WHAT?!")
5/ Anxiety
6/ Fear
I've been through all six myself, and watched everyone around me cycle through them for four years.
Plenty of people stop at a stage and chose to stay there, including stage one.
But if you get through all six, you emerge somewhere that isn't fear at all:
This is a powerful technology being deployed at speed, without accountability, and the answer to that is the same as it's always been for powerful technology. Regulation.
The direction was set years ago; the Bletchley and Seoul Declarations. What's missing is political pressure to act on them (Organise people!).
If you doubt regulation matters, note who opposes it hardest: tRump, Karp, and Thiel; who now calls anyone advocating AI regulation the literal " #Antichrist "
When opposing safety rules requires apocalyptic theology, the rules are probably touching something real.
If AI worries you, the worst thing you can do is stop learning about it.
The second worst is to do nothing
👉 Contact your representatives.👈
#RegulateAI #BletchleyDeclaration #AIPolicy #TechForGood #AiSlop
