“The Tech Industry is the Biggest Blocker to Meaningful AI Safety Regulations” by Garrison

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My latest reporting went up in The Nation yesterday:

It's about the tech industry's meltdown in response to SB 1047, a California bill that would be the country's first significant attempt to mandate safety measures from developers of AI models more powerful and expensive than any yet known.

Rather than summarize that story, I’ve added context from some past reporting as well as new reporting on two big updates from yesterday: a congressional letter asking Newsom to veto the bill and a slate of amendments.

The real AI divide

After spending months on my January cover story in Jacobin on the AI existential risk debates, one of my strongest conclusions was that the AI ethics crowd (focused on the tech's immediate harms) and the x-risk crowd (focused on speculative, extreme risks) should recognize their shared [...]

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Outline:

(00:56) The real AI divide

(03:18) The congressional letter

(05:58) The turning tides

(09:29) Capitalism vs. democracy

(10:15) Yesterday's amendments to SB 1047

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First published:
August 16th, 2024

Source:
https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/snto3JZs6HrgvsoJG/the-tech-industry-is-the-biggest-blocker-to-meaningful-ai

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