Vance delivered a speech on AI that is interesting
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So far this is what I'm seeing. Where I work it made Indians useful, it's crazy how a guy who couldn't write a working code now can make something useful in multiple languages. On the other hand it does incentives hiring Indians in India.
Incentivizing outsourcing to India is only the tip of the iceberg if OpenAI or one of their competitors like Xai achieves AGI (Artificial General Intelligence)
It would result in mass automation and millions of people would be out of work immediately.
Consider that AI technology continues to improve year by year at an exponential pace not a linear pace
We could see ridiculously powerful AI technology emerge in the next 5-10 years
I fear it will be too late to stop something like AGI AFTER it has been created.
It is imperative we consider the risks when discussing AI
Vance in this speech massively downplayed the risks of AI and provided a techno-optimist vision.
I just find this disturbing personally
MAGA is a movement for putting Americans first not pushing AI so hard that Americans get replaced by automation.
I agree that Ai will move much faster and with greater consequence than regulation but I'm also convinced it is inevitable.
Simply put we have mass immigration, wars, inflation and all the identity politics that take most of the spotlight. AI is important enough to get attention but not enough as to create well thought out regulation. Everyone cares about using AI to impersonate people and that is about it.
AI is arguably the most important threat to individual liberty right now with only mass immigration matching it.
I also fear that this is inevitable.
The best time to properly regulate AI was years ago.
The next best time is now.
After AGI is achieved, it will be too late!
So, somehow more of an issue than:
Nations and international groups trying to push for digital ID's, while governments enthusiastically pass online verification laws with wild abandon.
Attempts to outlaw/ban VPN's.
Still very much active government/intelligence surveillance programs that collect and store massive amounts of data on people, often without a warrant.
Corporate data collection and the selling thereof.
I mean I'll agree, that AI as a tool is going to make things way easier for various groups in their efforts to collect and store data about individuals. The problem though isn't so much the tools that are being employed, so much as that they're being allowed to collect that data in the fucking first place.
My worry is that AI is a game changer, and whoever doesn’t pursue it is going to lose to the people that do. It’s all well and good to say “American workers need to come first,” and they do, but you also can’t stick your head in the sand and ignore it. Regulating AI too much, assuming it’s not all hot air and does keep improving drastically, is akin to saying that the USSR is welcome to build nukes, but we won’t be doing it, thanks. Probably even worse.
Ask me how I know you don't have any idea wtf you're talking about
As Ender910 pointed out already, you can regulate employment and corporations without limiting the freedom of people to build what they imagine. "Regulating AI" is a greater threat to individual liberty than its existence.
I think our focus should be learning to work with what's there so we can get OUR guys into these new positions AI may create.
We can try to slow it down but more regulations will just make it easier for corporations to take over the AI space and we'll have a Google 3.0 with OpenAI all over again.