That Biden is paying attention to AI is more important than whether he fully understands the technology and its broad spectrum of applications, said Steve Blank, an adjunct professor of management …
President Joe Biden met with 14 science and technology advisers in San Francisco on Wednesday to talk about artificial intelligence and tout an investment of more than $100 million to combat deadly antibiotic-resistant bacteria.
Biden noted “vast differences” in the promise and perils of different types of AI, and without providing specifics promised an executive order on a technology that has exploded this year. He said his administration would continue to pursue bipartisan legislation “so America leads the way toward responsible AI innovation.”
The vast number of AI applications, from developing new medicines to deploying robotic weapons, requires government to approach each use case specifically, making regulation and legislation extremely complicated, Blank said. Chon Tang, a venture capitalist and general partner at UC Berkeley’s startup accelerator SkyDeck, applauded the focus on using AI for low-risk, high-reward purposes such as forecasting weather and creating innovative materials. But he hopes Biden will keep a close eye on dangers such as job losses to automation, theft of intellectual property for building generative AIs and the long-term possibility of a dangerous super-intelligence.
But taking Big Tech at its word may be problematic, Blank said, citing AI’s potential to dramatically boost misinformation and social media’s history of sowing societal chaos. “As long as profits are No. 1 and the country and the social good is somewhere else on the list, having companies self-regulate things that could disrupt or destroy democracy is never a good strategy,” Blank said.
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