Welcome to the Tech Mem Right Home for Wednesday, May 31st,

2023 I'm Brian McCullough today. Big names in the AI industry are

basically begging governments to regulate AI, but some people are

wondering about their motives.

The considerations the Biden administration is taking into account vis-à-vis AI regulation,

new Garment smart watches, and why the Lovecraftian Shagoth is the meme of the AI

moment.

Here's what you missed today in the world of tech. Yesterday, execs from Open AI and Deep Mind, as well as other AI luminaries, including

Jeffrey Hinton and more than 350 others, released a statement saying,

mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority.

Quoting the New York Times, mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global

priority alongside other societal

scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war reads a one-sentence statement released by the

Center for AI Safety, a non-profit organization. The open letter was signed by more than 350 executives, researchers, and engineers working in AI.

Dan Hendricks, the executive director of the Center for AI Safety, said in an interview that the

open letter represented a coming out for some of the

industry's leaders who had expressed concerns but only in private about the risks

of the technology they were developing. There is a very common misconception even in the AI community that there only are a handful of doomers Mr. Hendricks said but in fact many people privately would express concerns about these things end quote

Some skeptics argue that AI technology is still too immature to pose an existential threat. When it comes to today's AI systems, they worry more about short-term problems such as biased and incorrect responses than longer-term

dangers. But others have argued that AI is improving so rapidly that it has already

surpassed human-level performance in some areas and that it will soon surpass it in others.

They say the technology has shown signs of advanced abilities

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