Basic GlitchJan 21

White House tech chief slams EU AI Act, champions Trump's approach as Davos begins

https://sh.itjust.works/post/53802827

Todd Howard can't write you a script for SSRIs, y'all. Go to the doctor. - sh.itjust.works

>Going into this week’s World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, the White House’s top science and technology adviser, Michael Kratsios, signaled some chilly conversations with European leaders may lie ahead on the topic of artificial intelligence and the way it is regulated. >“I will continue to point out to my tech minister counterparts the ways they can create a regulatory environment to allow AI to thrive,” Kratsios told NBC News, “to make sure they’re not getting ahead of themselves with overburdening regulations, like the EU AI Act, which are an absolute disaster.” For Kratsios, the Trump administration’s light-touch approach to AI regulation is the winning formula. >"There’s been an A-B test for decades on how you lead in technology, and it’s very obvious what the recipe is,” said Kratsios, director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and one of the nation’s leading artificial intelligence advisers.

Show threadmelfie

From a quick reading of the actual law, here are some of the AI uses it prohibits that will apparently “stifle innovation”:

…use of an AI system that exploits any of the vulnerabilities of a natural person or a specific group of persons due to their age, disability or a specific social or economic situation

…to assess or predict the risk of a natural person committing a criminal offence, based solely on the profiling of a natural person or on assessing their personality traits and characteristics

…the use of an AI system that deploys subliminal techniques beyond a person’s consciousness or purposefully manipulative or deceptive techniques

…the use of AI systems that create or expand facial recognition databases through the untargeted scraping of facial images from the internet or CCTV footage

…the use of biometric categorisation systems that categorise individually natural persons based on their biometric data to deduce or infer their race, political opinions, trade union membership, religious or philosophical beliefs, sex life or sexual orientation

AI Act Service Desk - Article 5: Prohibited AI practices

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Show threadBasic GlitchJan 21

Yeah it’s pretty much a guarantee that when you hear an oligarch saying regulations cause stagnation or stifle innovation, they’re referring to protections that are meant to keep people from being exploited.

They will then claim that U.S. values are “baked in” to their bullshit and that’s why you don’t need regulations… These are also the people that are destroying the U.S. and have openly stated they are trying to destroy democracy

Show threadILikeTraaaainsJan 21

Me at a congress about technology and medicine.

Presentation about future of AI in medicine.

The speaker that current Europea blocks progress

The laws? GDPR, medical data protection, and privacy.

In that congress there were two sides on AI in healthcare, one making emphasis on improving care and outcomes and huge emphasis on privacy and security, and the other envisioned a Medical Minority Report/Big Brother-like future where there is zero human connection with the patient.