Biden releases AI executive order directing agencies to develop safety guidelines

AI that is used to monitor cameras and identify our faces to track everywhere everyone goes: Why would that concern you? Do you have something to hide, citizen?

AI that might be used to generate agitprop, competing with conventional advertising: HOLY SHIT we need a new international treaty right away!

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.

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.

Plenty of unemployed AI ethics folks around to ask.

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 -- including the humans who made that decision.

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 bully or deceive 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."

(Think selfishness or greed are a problem today? Consider a megacorp run by an entity that literally has no other drives but to protect and expand itself, thinks billions of times faster than any human board of directors, and cannot die. Say what you like about Bill Gates, he at least seems to enjoy curing diseases.)

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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Good thing we have a guy in office who grew up without a fucking computer.

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