Submitted 1 year ago by holo_nexus@kbin.social to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/30/23914507/biden-ai-executive-order-regulation-standards
The executive order comes after a series of non-binding agreements with AI companies.
The order has eight goals: to create new standards for AI safety and security, protect privacy, advance equity and civil rights, stand up for consumers, patients, and students, support workers, promote innovation and competition, advance US leadership in AI technologies, and ensure the responsible and effective government use of the technology.
Good thing we have a guy in office who grew up without a fucking computer.
And all of us grew up without AI. 🤨
Yes, I’d rather have someone who grew up with some semblance of modern technology be the one at the helm enacted policy relating to it.
You do know that Biden didn’t personally draft this himself, right?
Oh, sorry, for a minute there I thought he was the commander in chief and that the policies acted under his supervision were to reflect on him directly
Silly me.
That would be relevant if he were the one writing the policy, which he’s not.
Yawn.
There’s plenty to criticise, but this particular take is fucking moronic.
Everyone grew up before insert current new tech.
I grew up before cell phones, PC’s, internet, streaming, torrenting, etc, etc, and I bet a years salary I could explain all of those things in pretty good detail and many, many, many, many more than you, extemporaneously, (i.e. at the drop of a hat) , while drunk and high.
Would you say the same about LBJ, who is THE reason we have NASA, moon landings, and all the derivative tech (including the internet you’re currently using)?
Pick a dozen other valid reasons to criticise him, this take isn’t.
Do you know how little that narrows it down?
Grew up without one? He’s 80. He probably didn’t even use a computer before he was 50.
Pretty sure there were computers in the eighties.
What's the point if they're non-binding? AI should be privacy friendly and open, otherwise we end up with some serious problems down the line.
The President has limited authority and cannot make laws unilaterally. For sensible AI regulations and laws we will certainly need Congress to do its job, and clearly they're pretty damn bad at that.
Plenty of unemployed AI ethics folks around to ask.
They're unemployed for a reason. They're a cult and not actually doing anything worthwhile.
Being pro privacy is now being part of a cult? Projecting much?
Unfortunately this doesn’t seem to address the “takeoff” problem: the use of AI to build more-capable AI, the creation of autonomous AI systems that can develop self-protection drives (see Omohundro 2008), etc.
AI systems should not be allowed to control economic resources until alignment is solved. As it stands, if a major company were to turn over its management to an autonomous AI system, there’s a good chance that’s game over for humans.
The safety problem of autonomous AI systems able to (for instance) obtain their own resources or optimize their own code have been known since long before GPTs or deepfakes were a thing.
Unfortunately “AI safety” has largely been coopted to mean “stop humans from using deepfakes to be mean to other humans” rather than “stop fully-automated corporations from taking over the economy and running the planet with even less humane ethics even than human-run corporations do.”
The National Institute of Standards and Safety (NIST) will be responsible for developing standards to “red team” AI models before public release, while the Department of Energy and Department of Homeland Security are directed to address the potential threat of AI to infrastructure and the chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear and cybersecurity risks.
The rules will be developed by agencies with relevant expertise.
Those agencies don't have relevant experience and this will largely be guided by shitty upper level breauricratic types.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
President Joe Biden signed an executive order providing rules around generative AI, ahead of any legislation coming from lawmakers.
Several government agencies are tasked with creating standards to protect against the use of AI to engineer biological materials, establish best practices around content authentication, and build advanced cybersecurity programs.
The National Institute of Standards and Safety (NIST) will be responsible for developing standards to “red team” AI models before public release, while the Department of Energy and Department of Homeland Security are directed to address the potential threat of AI to infrastructure and the chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear and cybersecurity risks.
Developers of large AI models like OpenAI ‘s GPT and Meta’s Llama 2 are required to share safety test results.
It also orders government agencies to provide guidelines for landlords, Federal benefits programs, and contracts on how to prevent AI from exacerbating discrimination.
These were later turned into a series of agreements between the White House and several AI players, including Meta, Google, OpenAI, Nvidia, and Adobe.
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mojo@lemm.ee 1 year ago
More and more of these “safety” proposals just serve to kill open source AI, only allowing a few mega corps deem what we can do with them while remaining advertising friendly of course. Freedom dies in the name of “safety”, especially technology that is governed by people who have zero concept of how it works besides a scary ambiguous buzzword.