Yesterday's #SenateAIHearing was pure political theatre: the appearance of wanting to do something.
#AI is and remains a savage and lawless land ( the perfect conditions for #SiliconValley oligarchs, #VC’s and their #BigTech injection / distribution partners )
#AI isn’t a threat.
Humans wielding it is.
#AI audits remain a conceptual and nebulous process at best... so does indemnification (especially for physician & institutional use of #Health & #Healthcare #AI’s)
• #data provenance
• data governance
• algorithmic accountability
…all require regulatory frameworks.
In the mean time:
#AI remains a savage and lawless land.
The #SenateAIHearing today was basically techno-political theatre – the appearance of ‘doing something’
I will say it again...
I do not recall an open letter with thousands of prominent signatories, a hastily-assembled White House Task Force and a big Senate hearing for automated driving systems.
You know... #SafetyCritical systems that are masquerading as #AI that have killed people and have the capacity to readily cause immediate injury and death.
We have an unregulated Wild West out there on that.
No, no.
Let's sound the alarm over a goddamned chatbot.
And that's the #SenateAIHearing closed. If I needed motivation to work on the edits to my piece about GPT, this was it.
Again, the thread broke when I tried to edit a toot, in there, so here's part 1: https://ourislandgeorgia.net/@Wolven/110378922091969254
and part 2: https://ourislandgeorgia.net/@Wolven/110379107564377616
Listening to Josh Hawley fear-hype GPTs and LLMs at 10am on a Tuesday is not a fate I'd wish on anyone, but this is the life and careers I've chosen. That said, I'll say this for Sam Altman: He's definitely learned how to package "I'm deeply concerned about AI overlords and being hunted in a Terminator-esque wasteland of bombed out cites and mountains of human skulls" into a mainstream-appealed senate-hearing soundbyte. #SenateAIHearing
Booker showing his technocratic roots, even while urging caution; asking what we can do about the idea that a very few corps will control the field; Marcus talking about the problems of BingChat and how those made a space for others to be AS LOOSE with ethics, goes on to talk about personal shift from technical discussions to policy.
Booker asks Altman about concerns over how market forces and impacts will move toward reg. capture; Altman discusses "why we started as open source" [neatly skipping the part about why they closed]. #SenateAIHearing
Also Sen. Padilla's question about an over-focus on English is 100% on point.
Montgomery making the simplest point, but also the most important one - AI is not a shield. Whether an AI tool or a human does something, it should be treated the same.