AI safety and regulation - Microsoft’s Brad Smith sticks his head above the parapet with views that should prompt another Trumpian meltdown
After every major accident, incident, or disaster that could have been prevented, at some point a somber looking official will stand in front of TV cameras and intone solemnly that ‘Lessons have been learned’ in a bid to shut down further discussion of who was to blame.
Let’s not do the same with AI, says Microsoft President Brad Smith in a very welcome intervention to the increasingly febrile debate around the technology’s safety and who should and should not be responsible for this.
As things stand, the leading frontier model firms don’t want to carry this burden on their own and are calling for slowdowns in development and regulatory regimes. The US Government in the form of Donald Trump thinks this is left-wing treachery by deviants and revolutionaries and refuses to contemplate any such action. Meanwhile the chances of a major AI-related safety incident inevitably creep closer every day.
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