Jonathan Salem Baskin

Let the folks behind AI get filthy rich but refuse to let them outsources the consequences and costs of their enrichment to us. The EU is silent on such things, so we need to speak up.

There are impossibilities inherent in the models for what’s possible in AI oversight. Those impossibilities get more real and likely as the systems get smarter.

AI has never been risk of annihilation OR enjoyment of benefits. It’s BOTH. Pushmi-pullyu.

My gut tells me that we’re going to have to reimagine how (and to whom or what) we assign responsibility for actions long before AI achieves artificial general intelligence (“AGI”), which is something OpenAI’s Sam Altman is doggedly pursuing. The conversation should be about ethics and liability law, not technology.

Tech toffs want to distract regulators. AI is about everything except tech.

Pretending that ethical questions don’t exist won’t make them go away. Sneers don’t replace thoughtful dialogue.

Why put a goofy giant rolling white egg in Times Square Station?