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This article centers on the governance challenges and regulatory deference surrounding AI safety, specifically highlighting concerns about policymakers lacking technical expertise to scrutinize existential risk predictions. The discussion focuses entirely on the intersection of public policy and artificial intelligence development, making it a core subject for this publication.
Is this how the world ends? Extinction scenarios are taking over the AI debate.
Policymakers have a track record of being deferential when dealing with the tech sector, says AI Now's Aya Ibrahim. “When it comes to tech issues, there’s just this culture of learned helplessness from the same policymakers that sit on energy and commerce [committees] and oversee the FDA and prescription drugs,” topics where they don’t question their right to govern. The post Is this how the world ends? Extinction scenarios are taking over the AI debate. appeared first on AI Now Institute.
Aya Ibrahim, who leads national security work for the AI Now Institute, an independent research organization, said that any limitations of AI predictions may get little scrutiny from elected officials. Policymakers have a track record of being deferential when dealing with the tech sector, she said.
“When it comes to tech issues, there’s just this culture of learned helplessness from the same policymakers that sit on energy and commerce [committees] and oversee the FDA and prescription drugs,” topics where they don’t question their right to govern, said Ibrahim, a former Biden White House official. “Suddenly, if you can’t code the model yourself, then you’re not in a position to weigh in.”
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