Editor,
High-tech executives are spending millions of dollars lobbying the Congress to block any state legislations from regulating artificial intelligence. A super PAC called, Leading the Future, with an initial funding of $100 million from major AI investors is targeting state representatives who propose legislation to regulate AI. Build American AI, an advocacy group launched a $10 million campaign to prevent states from regulating AI.
The dangers of AI are abundantly clear. Parents of two teenagers filed law suits against OpenAI and Character.ai, accusing use of bots from these companies led to their children commit suicide. Former AI developers are warning parents and teachers about children losing critical thinking skills when they use AI to do their homework. AI based apps are already used to create deepfake nude images of anyone. Another already growing problem is the threat to jobs by AI. Experts are already warning us super intelligent AI could be an existential threat to human race. Power consumption by AI data centers can accelerate climate crisis.
Against all this ominous warnings, tech executives, like tobacco executives, are pushing a dangerous product on us, using same deceptive techniques. We must all warn our representatives in Congress to stand firm against the tech titans and reject a bill that will ban states from regulating AI.
K. Sathya
Redwood City
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(3) comments
Thanks for your letter, K. Sathya, but IMO the toothpaste is out of the tube, similar to tobacco. One can attempt to minimize dangers but ultimately, it will be up to the user (or their parents/guardians/babysitter) to educate themselves or their charges. Good luck out there.
Tobacco btw. was the last time good old political bipartisanship achieved something outstanding for America. These political leaders went after something that makes people addicts and causes lung cancer and other rather negative health outcomes. The addicts worked hard, but steadfast politicians went after the marketing that targeted children, they made the addiction more inconvenient and used the tobacco VICE TAX to provide education and anti-smoking outreach.
That would not be possible with two political parties that have turned into whiners - politicians with only one argument: "but the other party is even worse than us".
I was watching an interview with a Chat IA monitor, based in Africa, who has become so depressed with what he had to remove from websites, that feed into AI, that he lost all of his friends, his wife and his daughter. There is so much indescribable, violent information at one's finger tip out there that somehow needs scrubbing before it can be accessed. But, where do we draw the line, who can be held accountable for the garbage and violence that is posted? We are in a real conundrum that appears impossible to neutralize and warn most of us, who are luddites, from presuming veracity.
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