I think the only thing we can do is to come up with very good regulation and then try to export it as well. I think the EU has already done some good things in this domain. The US has its own problems with getting regulation through in the political systems. But if we can get a good EU regulation going, I think that's a good start. And then with all of these other countries, I think it's a genuinely hard problem. As long as it depends on what the regulation would look like, I think there is always going to be bad actors. We have to imagine very bad systems before going that far. Because we will remember the childhood of the internet where people talked
In part two of this partnership with the Swedish publishing house and ideas forum Fri Tanke we hear from Anders Ynnerman, Professor of Scientific Visualization at Linköping University and the Program Director of the Wallenberg AI, Autonomous Systems and Software Program (WASP), and Henrik Kugelberg, Interdisciplinary ethics fellow Stanford University - who react to philosopher David Chalmer's keynote speech on VR, AI, and the Mystery of Consciousness.
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