S8 Ep325: PREVIEW FOR LATER REIMAGINING AI REGULATION BEYOND THE SKYNET MYTH Colleague Kevin Frazier, University of Texas Law School. Frazier argues against regulating Artificial Intelligence through a fearful "Skynet mentality," suggesting it is better viewed simp

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PREVIEW FOR LATER REIMAGINING AI REGULATION BEYOND THE SKYNET MYTH Colleague Kevin Frazier, University of Texas Law School. Frazier argues against regulating Artificial Intelligence through a fearful "Skynet mentality," suggesting it is better viewed simply as advanced computing known since 1956. He recommends treating AI not as a bespoke technology but as part of a broader portfolio of technological changes, including quantum computing and robotics.
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0:00.0	This is John Batchelor, conversation with colleague Kevin Fraser at the University of Texas Law School
0:06.2	about artificial intelligence and what's it for? What about the regulations? What about the
0:13.0	interest of state legislatures, federal authorities, regulators in Europe and in America to
0:20.0	control it in some fashion to correct it.
0:23.4	Kevin has a recommendation how we should think of AI and how we've always been thinking of AI.
0:29.8	There's Kevin Fraser to explain. The future is already here. It's just not evenly distributed.
0:35.4	More so now than back in the 20th century. More of this later. John, I don't think that's the best approach forward. I think that AI is best thought of as advanced computing, as my colleague Neil Chilson says regularly. We've known about AI or some variant of it since 1956. And what we see is that the
0:58.0	overreaction to AI as we describe it today often is from that sort of sky net mentality, where we
1:04.5	want to treat it as a bespoke individual new technology. But instead, it's best to adjust to technologies as a portfolio of
1:12.7	changes we're seeing. Because right after AI, John, soon you and I will be talking about quantum,
1:18.8	more about robotics, more about AR and VR. And so this is just the beginning.

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