#1599 Taming the Beast: AI Regulation Before Human Relegation
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🗓️ 20 December 2023
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Air Date 12/20/2023
AI needs to be regulated by governments even though politicians don't understand computers just as the government regulates the manufacture and operation of aircraft even though your average politician doesn't know their ass from an aileron. That's why expert advisory panels are for.
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SHOW NOTES
Ch. 1: How are governments approaching AI regulation - In Focus by The Hindu - Air Date 11-16-23
Dr Matti Pohjonen speaks to us about the concerns revolving around AI governance, and if there are any fundamental principles that an AI regulatory regime needs to address.
Ch. 2: A First Step Toward AI Regulation with Tom Wheeler - Your Undivided Attention - Air Date 11-2-23
President Biden released a sweeping executive order that addresses many risks of artificial intelligence. Tom Wheeler, former chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, shares his insights on the order and what's next for AI regulation.
We host a roundtable discussion with three experts in artificial intelligence on growing concerns over the technology’s potential dangers: Yoshua Bengio, Max Tegmark, and Tawana Petty.
European Union member states and lawmakers reached a preliminary agreement on what they touted as the world's first comprehensive AI legislation on Friday.
Ch. 5: EU vs. AI - Today, Explained - Air Date 12-18-23
The EU has advanced first-of-its-kind AI regulation. The Verge’s Jess Weatherbed tells us whether it will make a difference, and Columbia University’s Anu Bradford explains the Brussels effect.
Ch. 7: How to Keep AI Under Control | Max Tegmark - TEDTalks - Air Date 11-2-23
Scientist Max Tegmark describes an optimistic vision for how we can keep AI under control and ensure it's working for us, not the other way around.
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Giant tech firms are meeting secretly to deregulate Artificial Intelligence technologies in the most undemocratic ways possible. Can profit really take over and corrupt progress?
Ch. 9: How are governments approaching AI regulation Part 2 - In Focus by The Hindu - Air Date 11-16-23
FINAL COMMENTS
Ch. 10: Final comments on the need to understand the benefits and downsides of new technology
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| 0:27.0 | left podcast in which you can find linked in the show notes. Welcome to this episode of the award-winning Best of the Left |
| 0:30.5 | podcast in which we shall look at why AI needs to be regulated by |
| 0:34.4 | governments even though politicians don't understand computers just as the |
| 0:38.4 | government regulates the manufacturer and operation of aircraft even though |
| 0:42.3 | your average politician doesn't know their |
| 0:44.3 | ass from an aileron. Sources today include in focus, your undivided attention, |
| 0:49.8 | Democracy Now, DW News, Today Explained, and a TED Talk with additional members only clips |
| 0:56.8 | from the Tom Hartman program and In Focus. So to start with I was wondering if you can give us a brief idea of what are the real concerns about AI that are animating that are |
| 1:15.7 | driving the legislative efforts of governments around the world. What are the |
| 1:19.8 | core concerns? Yeah sure so it's actually a very interesting debate and as somebody who has been following the debate |
| 1:27.3 | far before it became very publicly kind of heated alongside Jet GPT and some of the new models is that there has been a very kind of a mesh of different topics and themes that have been involved in that or under underpinning line. |
| 1:41.6 | Some of the debates around how to best regulate and legislate |
| 1:45.4 | artificial intelligence. So I think a good way to start looking at this is that |
| 1:49.2 | we start off with the kind of negation or try to articulate to think about what potentially or what has been the kind of one of the one of the drivers of the debate that might not be the key thing to discuss in this podcast or in this conversation. |
| 2:05.4 | So there is a very popular kind of public conversation that has been going on around |
| 2:09.8 | the image of machines,ators artificial intelligence as this machines |
| 2:14.4 | take on the world. So there has been a very powerful debate around the kind of |
| 2:17.8 | existential risk of AI which has been driving some of the debates and once we start going into regulatory aspects of it, |
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