Countries Engaged In Race To Regulate AI

Somewhere between hype and fear about artificial intelligence (AI), there is—or there will be—AI governance, Rishi Iyengar reported for Foreign Policy.

Photo Insert: Calls for policy interventions have grown louder in recent weeks, and regulators are trying to step up their game.

Chatbots, image generators, and search engines powered by AI are quickly proliferating, as are dire warnings about the unbridled development of the technology from many of the people who developed it, with a petition crafted by Elon Musk and company to pause work on AI being signed by 27,000 people.

As AI tools have become widely available to the public, experts have expressed concerns about how they can be misused, and what could happen as AI becomes more powerful.

Vinod Khosla of Khosla Ventures said only China will benefit from a six-month pause. He says Musk wants an AI pause so his companies, including a newly-created one, could work on new technology, which is a veritable case of bad conscience masquerading as genuine concern.

Calls for policy interventions have grown louder in recent weeks, and regulators are trying to step up their game.

Moreover, academics like Yuval Noah Harari claimed that AI has snatched the operating system of civilization--- and is trying to beat the human brain by dishing out the guff fed into the system back into the brains of those who depend on AI.

His suggestion is simple: Make the AI output identify itself as created by the machine and not the man behind it.

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