Maybe AI and America’s lawmakers, in the end, can help each other grow up
“It’s not like labour or health care or defence where Congress has had a long history we can work off of,” he said. “In many ways, we’re starting from scratch.” He has set up a steering group of two Republicans and two Democrats, including himself, and plans this autumn to supplement the normal committee process, or posturing, with ”Insight Forums”, to include the industry’s leaders and its critics, to do “years of work in a matter of months”.
It is understandable that wise guys are making fun of this. Given Congress’s reputation for speed and technological literacy , the jokes write themselves, almost. Chatrefuse to testify before Congress? Because it didn’t want to be caught in a loop of lawmakers asking the same question over and over.”
Yet Americans should bask in this rare season, while it lasts, of good-faith searching and head-scratching. Not only are the regulators interrogating themselves about where and how they should regulate, the industry itself is asking to be regulated, up to a point. Even if it is all doomed to end in partisan impasse and recrimination, now is the time to ask: how could Washington get this right?
One danger is that lawmakers could wind up bickering over a problem they can address only at the edges. Representatives of both parties regret not more aggressively regulating the internet in general and social media in particular. Being politicians, they are alert to how political actors are already usingtools to generate political messages, including fabricated images. For their part journalists, being journalists, are obsessed withThese are serious concerns.
The good news is that these are the sorts of measures that Congress and the Biden administration are weighing. The most striking word in Mr Schumer’s recent speech was “humility”, as in, “We must exercise humility as we proceed.” Like many of his colleagues, Mr Schumer is not celebrated for this quality. Nor are the technology companies, but, in the face ofhalf-pipe of heaven and hell”, meaning it tends to be treated as either wonderful or terrible.
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