There has been so much written about AI lately….both pro and con….so with an election coming on strong Biden decides to wade into that particular cesspool…..
President Biden on Monday will sign a sweeping executive order to guide the development of artificial intelligence, requiring the industry to develop safety and security standards, introducing new consumer protections, and giving federal agencies an extensive to-do list to oversee the rapidly progressing technology. The order reflects the government’s effort to shape how AI evolves in a way that can maximize its possibilities and contain its perils, per the AP. AI has been a source of deep personal interest for Biden, with its potential to affect the economy and national security. White House chief of staff Jeff Zients recalled Biden giving his staff a directive to move with urgency on the issue, having considered the technology a top priority.
“We can’t move at a normal government pace,” Zients said the Democratic president told him. “We have to move as fast, if not faster than the technology itself.” In Biden’s view, the government was late to address the risks of social media, and now US youth are grappling with related mental-health issues. AI has the positive ability to accelerate cancer research, model the impacts of climate change, boost economic output, and improve government services, among other benefits. But it could also warp basic notions of truth with false images, deepen racial and social inequalities, and provide a tool to scammers and criminals. The order builds on voluntary commitments already made by technology companies.
It’s part of a broader strategy that administration officials say also includes congressional legislation and international diplomacy, a sign of the disruptions already caused by the introduction of new AI tools such as ChatGPT that can generate new text, images, and sounds. Using the Defense Production Act, the order will require leading AI developers to share safety test results and other information with the government. The National Institute of Standards and Technology is to create standards to ensure AI tools are safe and secure before public release. The Department of Commerce is to issue guidance to label and watermark AI-generated content to help differentiate between authentic interactions and those generated by software. The order also touches on matters of privacy, civil rights, consumer protections, scientific research, and worker rights.
Will this do the trick?
I think not. To me this smells of a campaign ploy….I agree something needs doing but this is not the answer at least from where I am sitting.
This can of worms have been open for too long to find a way to contain them.
Any thoughts?
I Read, I Write, You Know
“lego ergo scribo”
It’s too late already. AI is out of the box, and one day we will all live to regret that.
Best wishes, Pete,.
I agree Typical Dems seek answers for problems after the fact. chuq
I’m with Pete. Too late. Years too late.
Amen! chuq
Too little, too late, as the saying goes. I agree with Pete. This is not going to turn out well. Any attempt to try to control this is going to fail. It’s already out there in the wild, so to speak, for anyone to play with. And modify. Supposedly on-line magazines like Gizmodo are already using it to write articles once done by human staff.
And the so-called “hallucinations” are already taking their toll with multiple cases where AI generated content claimed that innocent people were guilty of various crimes, and giving invalid and even harmful “medical advice”. And, of course, realistic images of persons in situations they never were actually involved in.
A few months ago Der Spiegel had an interesting article called The End of Truth, and it was pretty much spot on. The tools we now have available make it damn near impossible to tell fantasy from reality, and it’s only going to get worse as the technology improves.
All true and none of the problem solved….way too late for ‘action’…..chuq