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Regulating AI: What’s the government’s power?

KCRW's Left, Right & Center

KCRW

352865, News

4.24.8K Ratings

🗓️ 3 November 2023

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

President Biden signed a sweeping order focused on reinforcing safety, security, and trust in artificial intelligence. It creates federal guardrails for the continuously evolving technology, while advocating for its development. The government was slow to address calls for regulating social media. Will an aggressive federal approach on AI pay off?

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey everybody welcome to left right and center. I am David Green or am I I mean these

0:06.2

days couldn't this just be an AI version of me I assure you it is not we would never

0:10.9

do that but my question is whose job is it to protect you

0:14.5

from getting a voice that is not the voice of who you think it is well a lot of

0:18.9

people think the government should play a big role in protecting us from AI, including this guy.

0:24.8

We think that regulatory intervention by governments will be critical to mitigate the risks

0:29.0

of increasingly powerful models.

0:30.9

That happens to be Sam Altman, who is the CEO of Open AI, the company behind

0:35.8

ChatGPT and Dolly, two of the most popular artificial intelligence systems out there today.

0:41.9

That was at a Senate Judiciary hearing back in May. Seems

0:45.0

like Altman is getting what he was asking for because President Biden this

0:49.3

week signed an executive order on AI here's the president.

0:53.4

One thing is clear to realize the promise of AI

0:56.9

and void the risk we need to govern this technology

0:59.9

not and there's no other way around it in my view it must be governed that's why we're

1:05.5

here today I'm about to sign an executive order an executive order that is

1:11.0

most significant action any government anywhere in the world has ever

1:14.9

taken on AI safety, security and trust.

1:17.6

So what does this order do?

1:18.6

Well, it promised is to do a whole lot.

1:21.4

I mean, it's more than 100 pages long. This order would increase transparency

1:25.3

from tech companies requiring that they notify the government as they develop more powerful

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