The Struggle to Control AI
The Struggle to Control AI
How AI drives our finance and politics
Voiceover narrated by Ken Herron
Image generated in Adobe Express
“Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich by promising to protect each from the other.”
Key Takeaways
For the past year, a political fight has been raging globally -- [mostly] in the shadows — over how and whether to control AI.
Whoever wins this fight will cement their dominance over Western rules for this era-defining technology.
Once countries set these rules, they will be almost impossible to rewrite.
Open Questions
Rules: Yes or No?
US – no rules
EU and China – rules
Voluntary Commitments or Legislation?
US – Voluntary commitments
All Others – Government legislation
Open-Source or License?
Open-source – Meta
License – Microsoft + OpenAI
Regions Involved
US
EU
China
Japan, the UK, and Canada
Big Players
US – Meta, Google, Microsoft + OpenAI
Everyone else
Problems
Already arising worldwide
Misuse, abuse, and fake news
No safeguards
Too much regulation hurts business by stifling innovation
“This business about AI’s loss of control is suddenly being taken seriously. People are realizing this isn’t a long-term thing anymore. It’s happening.”
- Future of Life Institute President Max Tegmark
The Predictions from 2023
A new era of AI-powered domestic politics may be coming. Last July, Bruce Schneier and Nathan E. Sanders identified six ways AI could change politics. Watch for these milestones to know when it’s arrived –
A legislature or agency accepts testimony or comment generated by (and submitted under the name of) AI.
A legislature adopts an amendment to a bill written by AI.
AI-generated political messaging outscores campaign consultant recommendations in poll testing.
AI creates a political party with its own platform, attracting human candidates who win elections.
AI autonomously generates profit and makes political campaign contributions.
AI achieves a coordinated policy outcome across multiple jurisdictions.
Epilogue
AI is a big business involving lots of money. Current data AI has nothing in common with human intelligence but with finance and politics ruled by math and statistics to dominate people. When autonomous, cognitive edge AI appears on the market – a.k.a. robots with human-like intelligence – the old rules for AI and social interaction will become obsolete. And it will radically change the world’s markets.
I first published this article on LinkedIn; check out my artificial thinking articles on our reliance on technology dominated by profit, how big data keeps us under control, and wisdom always wins.
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