Big Tech’s doomsday warnings come with a convenient regulatory solution.
The American Spectator | USA News and Politics
"Hell, two years ago the Obamas made a Netflix movie about the end of the world. Now Barack is telling his mini-me in Congress to push AI catastrophism as his dominant agenda should he take power. You’re hardly a conspiracy theorist if you don’t recognize the imperative of never letting a crisis go to waste."
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| AF Branco |
"This is probably a take on the AI-will-kill-us-all debate that you haven’t seen. If it isn’t, let me commend you for the quality of your social media feed and/or your internet-surfing habits. But if you’re a regular reader of The American Spectator, you’ve hopefully picked up enough knowledge to be very skeptical of a classic information operation, and you recognized something fishy in the spectacle put on by the AI companies last week and over the weekend.
Specifically, that an employee who’d worked at both OpenAI and then at Anthropic resigned from the latter and released a missive complaining that nothing was being done to rein in the technology before it turns on the public and murders us all.
"No sooner did that little spectacle make the rounds online than both companies gave the “Yes sir, yes sir, three bags full” treatment to the ex-employee’s concerns, in ways which looked on first glance like typical crisis PR communications but then immediately pivoted to something else.
"Namely, a demand for Congress to slam on the brakes and regulate the AI industry.
"No sooner did that happen than the word leaked out that Barack Obama, whose presidential record consistently showed him to be an aficionado of turning every industry he could into a corporate oligopoly beholden to and embedded with an overweening regulatory state, had advised Democrat House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries to prioritize AI governance as the dominant agenda of his potential speakership should the Democrats carry the House majority in the midterms. (RELATED: AI: Technology the Left Love to Hate)
"Your pattern recognition skills should be kicking in at this point, and you should recognize this for what it is.
"We aren’t talking about the worry that a self-aware Skynet is about to begin manufacturing hunter-killer drones which make humanity extinct. We’re talking about something a lot older and far more tactile.
"Regulatory capture." . . . More.
The AI Revolution Arrives "What was wrong with horses?
"One observer in the long ago, supposedly given the chance to invest in inventor Henry Ford’s new “horseless carriage,” had this to say about the oncoming revolution of horses being replaced by automobiles — aka “the horseless carriage.” The quote?
"'The horse is here to stay, but the automobile is a passing fad.”
"Well now. To say the least, who was this prognosticator sharing his wisdom on the future as seen from the increasingly car-swamped 20th century?" . . .
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