Can We Govern AI?

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🗓️ 21 April 2023

⏱️ 40 minutes

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When it comes to AI, what kind of regulations might we need to address this rapidly developing new class of technologies? What makes regulating AI and runaway tech in general different from regulating airplanes, pharmaceuticals, or food? Answers to these questions are playing out in real time. Our guest Marietje Schaake, a former EU Parliamentarian, argues that if we wait for more AI harms to emerge before proper regulations are put in place, it may be too late… and she traces the path forward for effective governance, both in the U.S. and elsewhere.

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0:00.0	How can you govern something that's uncontrollable
0:02.7	or acts in ways you can never predict?
0:05.4	A few weeks ago, I joined thousands of people
0:07.3	in the technology sector who signed a letter asking companies
0:10.4	to pause on releasing any more AI-large language models
0:14.1	and to give us enough time to respond to what's out there
0:17.1	so that we can move at the speed of getting this right.
0:21.0	I'm Tristan Harris, and this is your undivided attention.
0:25.6	Now, a pause or slowdown is just one thing
0:27.6	that we can do when it comes to AI,
0:30.0	but another is government regulation.
0:32.1	And lately, we at the Center for Human Technology
0:34.0	and others have been asking, what would that even look like?
0:37.2	One potential model is the European Union,
0:39.3	which enacted a whole raft of tech rules starting
0:41.2	about six years ago, and they have several more in the pipeline,
0:44.3	including one called the AI Act.
0:46.8	Now, some of them have real teeth.
0:48.5	For example, meta or Facebook is actually
0:50.8	considering banning political ads in Europe,
0:53.3	specifically because it would be too difficult to comply
0:56.0	with the Digital Services Act campaign advertising regulations.
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