Are the Days of AI Wild West Finally Getting Over? | Issue #10
It seems unregulated AI is slowly been dethroned
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In what has become a humorous miscalculation for me, today will not be a deep dive. We will now have a Monday Deep Dive instead. I hope this isn’t a disappointment for you.
There are one three surprise sections at the bottom of today’s issue.
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It seems state actors, corporate rednecks and other stakeholders are finally stepping up to fight the spate of callousness that has behooved AI development for some time. Amid rising calls for regulation and policy formulation, we have good news on three steps forward towards real disciplined use of perhaps, mankind’s greatest tech.
1. Watchdog to the rescue
The United Nations has inaugurated a “high-level” advisory body tasked with guiding the global governance of artificial intelligence. Dubbed the ‘AI Advisory Board’, the body is comprised of a multi-stakeholder, globally inclusive team of 38 international experts drawn from varying sectors: academia to government, the private industry and even civil society.
UN is keen on ensuring AI governance aligns with human rights and SDGs with this new body.
2. The AI Alliance
Tech leaders also have a small round of applause here. OpenAI, Anthropic, Microsoft and Google have partnered with philanthropic entities to commit $10M, a meagre sum compared to their profits, in an AI safety fund to support research into AI safety standards until official oversight emerges.
They’ve appointed Chris Meserole, who has intensive experience in AI policy as the first executive director of the Frontier Model Forum who will focus on risks like hacking from AI-generated code and bioweapon design.
The fund will help fill the gaping need for independent scrutiny, research and safety best practices to keep up with breakneck advances..
3. Since Congress might have been too slow …
The White House has announced to reveal a comprehensive AI executive order on Monday, days before the International AI Summit, in for me, the Biden administration’s swift move to act more promptly in placing itself at the forefront of technological innovation. The International AI Summit is to host Silicon Valley, government leaders and CSGs in Britain and will feature top-level discussions from elite AI people and body representatives that I think should result in some communique or line of action.
“Safe, Secure and Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence” is the sexy campaign-style theme of the event that will be hosted by the President. I think the White House plans to expand on the earlier September commitments by about 15 companies including Google and OpenAI. There’ll be no surprise if Biden props this mantra if he recontests for second tenure.
There are two interesting aspects of this upcoming executive order. First, AI models will be assessed before federal employees can use them. Immigration procedures for highly skilled workers will also be simplified to make it easier for good AI engineers and developers to come to the U.S. even as companies fight to attract talent and brains from all over the world.
Second, the U.S. is looking to beef up its national cybersecurity measures. With the wave of cyberattacks targeting the U.S. in recent times, any security loopholes exploited by AI may increase the problem by magnitudes and wreak havoc to critical infrastructure. Key departments such as the Defense and Energy Department will be required to evaluate how AI will be incorporated into their workflows.
These moves signal a shift towards rigorous oversight of AI and they are nice news indeed.
To wrap it up,
I am fighting the gnawing temptation to blurt out that ‘the U.S. government and the tech guys don’t really care about AI safety and regulation as much as they care about using AI for world domination or for profit’ and then justify it with a lengthy essay on the AI wars; U.S. vs. China’s open catfight and Microsoft-OpenAI vs. Google-DeepMind + these two vs. Musk’s x.AI.
But not today.
And why today? Fight they can. It’s all good for progress. However, let the right thing be done and let it be genuine.
For now, an applause to the UN, the White House and the Frontier Model Forum will resound.
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