U.S. regulators set their sights on artificial intelligence ahead of Thursday’s White House meeting with tech companies to strategize on the dangers of artificial intelligence.
“Technology is advancing rapidly, but we are already aware of some risks,” Federal Trade Commission Commissioner Rina Khan said in a guest essay for The New York Times.
“Enforcers and regulators must be vigilant.”
The tricky part is that US lawmakers lag far behind their European counterparts in curbing big tech.
U.S. President Joe Biden has called on Congress to pass legislation that would place tough restrictions on the technology sector, but given the political division, these efforts are unlikely to move forward.
The lack of rules has left Silicon Valley free to launch new products quickly, raising fears that AI technology will wreak havoc on society before governments catch up.
The White House is scheduled to meet with the chief executives of Google, Microsoft, OpenAI and Anthropic on Thursday to discuss the potential and risks of artificial intelligence.
Vice President Kamala Harris and other senior government officials will discuss ways to ensure consumers can benefit from AI while being protected from its harm, according to a copy of the invitation seen by AFP. .
“Don’t expect this to lead to anything particularly meaningful, but it’s a good start,” says David Harris, a lecturer at the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley.
“The U.S. Congress can barely keep the government bank accounts full. I think it’s a stretch to expect them to enact meaningful legislation on AI.”
– “Turbocharge” scam? –
The United States is home to some of the biggest innovators in technology and AI, including the Microsoft-backed OpenAI that created ChatGPT.
To catch up with ChatGPT, Google invited users in the US and UK to test an AI chatbot known as Bard.
In March, billionaire Elon Musk founded an AI company called X.AI, based in Nevada, USA, according to business documents.
Google, Meta, and Microsoft have spent years developing AI systems to help with translation, Internet searching, security, and targeted advertising.
But late last year, San Francisco-based OpenAI quickly picked up interest in generative AI when it launched ChatGPT, a bot that can create natural-looking written responses from short prompts.
“Can we continue to be home to the world’s leading technology without embracing a competitive bottom business model and monopoly dominance?” Khan asked rhetorically.
“Yes, if we choose the right policies.”
Khan said AI risks include being used to “turbocharge” scams with voice clones, deep fake videos, and compelling written messages.
– cannibalism? –
A computer scientist often called the “godfather of artificial intelligence” recently quit his job at Google to talk about the dangers of technology.
Geoffrey Hinton said at the MIT Forum on Wednesday that it makes sense to stop developing AI, but the idea is simple given the competition between countries and companies.
“It’s quite possible that humans are just a transit point in the evolution of intelligence,” Hinton said.
Digital intelligence “may hold us up for a while to keep power plants running. After that, it may not,” he added.
Hinton, who developed the technology underlying AI systems, argued that existential threats from AI were “serious and near.”
CNBC reports that Microsoft chief economist Michael Schwartz said at the World Economic Forum in Geneva that “bad actors” such as spammers and those trying to manipulate election results cause damage. warned that AI will be used for
The AI arms race is expected to continue for several years.
Microsoft is rapidly embracing generative AI, and despite early problems such as chatbots reacting obnoxiously and providing blatantly inaccurate information, it has paid more attention than its competitors. Is not …
European countries are scrutinizing ChatGPT’s use of personal data and seeking answers from OpenAI.
The European Union’s Central Data Regulator has formed a task force to help countries coordinate policies and address privacy concerns.
ChatGPT can generate essays, poems and dialogues from the shortest prompts and has been proven to pass some tough tests.
However, it has been plagued by concerns that the talent could spread cheating in schools, foster disinformation on the web, or replace human workers.
Also, chatbots only work when trained on huge datasets, raising concerns about where OpenAI gets its data and how that information is handled.
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