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“Meaningful Harm” From AI Necessary Before Regulation, says Microsoft Exec

posted by janrinok on Monday May 15, @08:19PM   Printer-friendly
from the nuke-it-from-orbit-hindsight-20/20 dept.

Freeman writes:

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/05/meaningful-harm-from-ai-necessary-before-regulation-says-microsoft-exec/

As lawmakers worldwide attempt to understand how to regulate rapidly advancing AI technologies, Microsoft chief economist Michael Schwarz told attendees of the World Economic Forum Growth Summit today that "we shouldn't regulate AI until we see some meaningful harm that is actually happening, not imaginary scenarios."

The comments came about 45 minutes into a panel called "Growth Hotspots: Harnessing the Generative AI Revolution." Reacting, another featured speaker, CNN anchor Zain Asher, stopped Schwarz to ask, "Wait, we should wait until we see harm before we regulate it?"
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Lawmakers are racing to draft AI regulations that acknowledge harm but don't threaten AI progress. Last year, the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) warned Congress that lawmakers should exercise "great caution" when drafting AI policy solutions. The FTC regards harms as instances where "AI tools can be inaccurate, biased, and discriminatory by design and incentivize relying on increasingly invasive forms of commercial surveillance." More recently, the White House released a blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights, describing some outcomes of AI use as "deeply harmful," but "not inevitable."

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  • (Score: 2) by bloodnok on Monday May 15, @09:10PM (1 child)

    by bloodnok (2578) on Monday May 15, @09:10PM (#1306453)

    Right now all the damage that is "being done by AI" is not being done by AI but by the humans that have chosen to use them.

    If there is a problem with election misinformation being spread by AI, then we ought to look at why we think that election misinformation spread by humans is not a problem.

    If there are employment decisions being made unfairly by AIs then maybe we should also look at the unfair employment decisions made by humans.

    Why do we think its appropriate to allow dumb humans to do some things, but not smart machines?

    There are some serious and important discussions to be had about AI, but they are being drowned out by a whole lot of missing-the-point nonsense.

    Let's not wait for harm to happen, but let's also not legislate to prevent harms from AIs that we casually accept from humans.

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  • (Score: 3, Touché) by Gaaark on Tuesday May 16, @12:47AM

    by Gaaark (41) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday May 16, @12:47AM (#1306479) Journal

    ^this is why we can't have anything nice. Everywhere we go, we're humans.

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