Agreed. Regulate AI? Sure, though I have zero faith politicians will do it competently. But more IP protection? Hard pass. I'd rather abolish patents.

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TheAceOfHearts 6 hours ago | parent [-]

I think one of the key issues is that most of these discussions are happening at too high of an abstraction level. Could you give some specific examples of AI regulations that you think would be good? If we actually start elevating and refining key talking points that define the direction in which we want things to go, they will actually have a chance to spread.

Speaking of IP, I'd like to see some major copyright reform. Maybe bring down the duration to the original 14 years, and expand fair use. When copyright lasts so long, one of the key components for cultural evolution and iteration is severely hampered and slowed down. The rate at which culture evolves is going to continue accelerating, and we need our laws to catch up and adapt.

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jasonsb 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> Could you give some specific examples of AI regulations that you think would be good?

Sure, I can give you some examples:

- deceiving someone into thinking they're talking to a human should be a felony (prison time, no exceptions for corporations)

- ban government/law-enforcement use of AI for surveillance, predictive policing or automated sentencing

- no closed-source AI allowed in any public institution (schools, hospitals, courts...)

- no selling or renting paid AI products to anyone under 16 (free tools only)

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__MatrixMan__ 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I like where you're going. How about we just ban closed source software of any kind from public institutions?

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j16sdiz 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> - deceiving someone into thinking they're talking to a human

This is gonna be as enforceable as the CANSPAM act. (i.e. you will get a few big cases, but it's nothing compared to the overall situation)

How do you proof it in court? Do we need to record all private conversations?

	▲	bcrosby95 an hour ago \| parent [-]
		If you think spam is bad now imagine if trillion dollar corporations could do it. Just because something isn't perfect doesn't mean it doesn't help.

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patrick451 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> Could you give some specific examples of AI regulations that you think would be good?

AI companies need to be held liable for the outputs of their models. Giving bad medical advice, buggy code etc should be something they can be sued for.