I'm very skeptical that Congress as it exists today has... I think there's self-confidence, which actually worries me quite a bit to regulate here. One thing that would slow the systems down is to insist on interpretability. We don't know why machine learning algorithms make the decisions or correlations or inferences or predictions that they make. And so you actually want to be able to have control of these systems to not have the regulatory hammer come down because you released one into the wild and now everybody's like full stop.
The New York Times Opinion columnist Ezra Klein has spent years talking to artificial intelligence researchers. Many of them feel the prospect of A.I. discovery is too sweet to ignore, regardless of the technology’s risks.
Today, Mr. Klein discusses the profound changes that an A.I.-powered world will create, how current business models are failing to meet the A.I. moment, and the steps government can take to achieve a positive A.I. future.
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