The issue of regulating the rapid development of AI has moved from academia to mainstream debate since late 2022, when OpenAI launched ChatGPT and wowed the world with how capable generative AI has become.
“The respect for properly applied technology is the role it can play in driving productivity gains that are critical to long-term economic success,” says Husic.
“The challenge for us is to identify risks and put guardrails where there are community concerns, while maintaining momentum for all the exciting things happening in AI.”
Husic said on Friday that OpenAI co-founder and chief executive Sam Altman will fly to Australia, including a meeting with ministers at the Houses of Parliament, to select another of the AI industry’s leading brains. got a chance.
Altman is one of a group of tech industry luminaries publicly calling for regulation, including Microsoft and Google. But it’s still unclear how this will happen in any viable way, with actors around the world agreeing not to be bad guys.
Altman met with leaders including Narendra Modi, Rishi Snak, Emmanuel Macron, Olaf Scholz, Ursula von der Leyen and Yoon Suk-yol, 17 in four weeks. I have just finished a dizzying tour of the world visiting countries. No one has the answer yet, but there seems to be broad consensus that some answers are needed.
Developers react faster than regulators
Yearsley said the law will never catch up with AI developers, so there should be more focus on fostering innovation than the law.
She said big tech companies are being disingenuous in saying they want regulation and distracting from the huge commercial gains they are making by juggling existing AI, making it a future existential threat. He is happy to talk about
“Rewarding good AI is the single most powerful tool we have for building AI that improves human society,” says Yearsley.
“The tools to change this are already in our hands. AI developers like us already know who you are and what you think, and literally thousands of things about you. We track variables, but Facebook, Microsoft, Amazon, and others use this to encourage you to buy something, watch another video, or just keep scrolling instead of seeing your loved one. persuade
Minister of Science and Industry Ed Hoosik talks with Akin Founder and CEO Liesl Yearsley on developing “Greater AI”. Dion Georgopoulos
“The problem is that doing good is becoming harder and capitalism is not rewarding it. Instead, it means optimizing and amplifying the worst aspects of humanity.”
EU takes the lead
As with most areas of big tech regulation, the most advanced efforts are in the European Union, not the United States, where politicians are denounced as anti-capitalist when they impede some of their country’s biggest companies. There are risks.
On Wednesday, the European Parliament voted in favor of pushing forward the EU AI law. This is a broad set of measures aimed more broadly at protecting the public from dangerous applications of AI. This includes stopping the use of “unacceptable” AI, such as law enforcement using analytics to predict criminal activity.
Companies also need to label AI-generated content to prevent it from being misused to spread falsehoods. We also agree with the publishing industry’s concerns that copyrighted material is being looted to train AI bots for profit, and what copyrighted data is being used to train AI tools. It is also obligatory to publish a summary of
But as the U.S. Congress’ attempt to hold Mark Zuckerberg to account a few years ago showed, regulating an industry full of people who can reel in their knowledge of technology is not possible. Very difficult.
Bryan Ferreira, vice president and managing executive partner at technology research firm Gartner, said the speed, scale, and breadth of generative AI’s evolution meant it was more for regulators to control than previous technology trends. Say it’s complicated.
So while governments and business leaders appreciate the power and capabilities of AI, no one yet knows how to properly manage and control AI adoption.
“While AI developers and vendors tell all the good stories, fear, anxiety and doubt are being propagated by naysayers who don’t know how to respond to AI trends,” says Ferreira.
According to Gartner, by 2026, 100 million humans will be using robotic colleagues (synthetic virtual colleagues) to contribute to the work of companies. And by 2033, AI solutions deployed to augment or autonomously deliver tasks, activities and jobs will create over 500 million net new human jobs worldwide. .
“The use of AI in high-risk areas requires regulatory and legal changes to manage possible consequences in situations such as cyberattacks and armed conflicts,” says Ferreira.
“Government should build an Australian AI ecosystem for innovation where businesses, talent and agencies can co-manage AI adoption … human-centred values, fairness, privacy, security, accountability and transparency. We need to develop an ethical framework that covers sexuality.”
