Re:The greatest risk of AI is from the people who control it...
by carimura on Friday June 02, 2023 @11:02AM
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> "not taking these things seriously" is very different from regulating something in it's infancy because of fear of the unknown.
I don't pretend to have the answer of what the balance is for oversight and regulation to optimize safety and innovation - but the first step for those responsible is to recognize the potential dangers and unknowns, and produce plans that can be discussed and debated.
> Even accepting this hypothesis as true, is the answer that we should have regulated cell culture in the 50s when HeLa cell culture became a thing?
How about gain-of-function research? How about nuclear weapons? I lean libertarian but also recognize we have a responsibility to safeguard humanity.
I don't pretend to have the answer of what the balance is for oversight and regulation to optimize safety and innovation - but the first step for those responsible is to recognize the potential dangers and unknowns, and produce plans that can be discussed and debated.
> Even accepting this hypothesis as true, is the answer that we should have regulated cell culture in the 50s when HeLa cell culture became a thing?
How about gain-of-function research? How about nuclear weapons? I lean libertarian but also recognize we have a responsibility to safeguard humanity.