Panic about overhyped AI risk could lead to the wrong kind of regulation

Published on July 10, 2023

Interesting opinion article by Divyansh Kaushik, associate director for emerging technologies and national security at the Federation of American Scientists and Matt Korda,senior research associate and project manager for the Nuclear Information Project at the Federation of American Scientists. They explain why calls for a 'Manhattan Project' style approach to responsible and safe AI would be both unpractical and ineffective. In general, they think the focus on AI as an existential risk ("dystopian nightmares à la the Terminator") is not very helpful. Instead, they call for a positive approach that would, inter alia, invest more in responsible AI research and attract AI top talent, but which would also make the best of current regulation, from privacy laws to scientific norms related to retention and reproducibility.

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