I’m not a policy maker, but off the top of my head:
For starters, I’d have Congress preemptively do what they would probably do post some AI disaster. Something like form a committee of academic researchers, security professionals, and other people who are incentivized to be skeptical and have them investigate the risks posed by the AI we have and what’s cooking. The aim would be take the risks seriously and propose policies that seek to mitigate those risks.
I’d also, make more of an effort to cooperate with governments to establish some treaty-like agreements about how we will use AI in critical areas like warfare. We have these kind of agreements about biological and nuclear weapons. We can have them about AI weapons, too. Maybe this would cool down the arms race atmosphere.
I would establish some kind of central-bank like authority whose members are protected from congressional and executive-branch meddling and whose mandate is to influence the development of AI in a way that’s universally agreed to be good society. Not sure how this would look and what their levers would be, but I think something similar to the Feds mandate to balance employment and inflation, but the AI version, would be worth exploring.
Finally, I wouldn’t wait until AI has replaced people and hyper scalers are sitting on trillions to have a plan for how millions of people are supposed to make a living when they can’t find work anymore because agents and robots are doing the jobs they used to do. I think we’re still a ways away from that reality. But having a framework, better yet policies, in place would probably make people feel a lot better about the development of AI. If everyone knows they’re going to get a UBI check for 5K plus access to a solid state sponsored healthcare plan for them and their immediate family when AI makes us all redundant, I don’t think people would be so apprehensive to AI and data centers.
Again, I’m not a policy maker. I’m sure there are a bunch of externalities that people can point out to poke holes in my ideas. Be my guest.
Sitting around doing what amounts to jack shit while the technology that powers the internet seems increasingly vulnerable to the technology we’re building and distributing as fast as possible definitely is not the way to go.
The credit markets seem concerned about the timing of the AI booms future cash flows. So maybe the invisible hand will take care of the situation for awhile. I just hope the unwinding doesn’t take the rest of the economy down with it.
Either way AI is here to stay. So, even if the bubble burst, when the market inevitably comes back the same issues will be there. Better to get ahead then not.
For starters, I’d have Congress preemptively do what they would probably do post some AI disaster. Something like form a committee of academic researchers, security professionals, and other people who are incentivized to be skeptical and have them investigate the risks posed by the AI we have and what’s cooking. The aim would be take the risks seriously and propose policies that seek to mitigate those risks.
I’d also, make more of an effort to cooperate with governments to establish some treaty-like agreements about how we will use AI in critical areas like warfare. We have these kind of agreements about biological and nuclear weapons. We can have them about AI weapons, too. Maybe this would cool down the arms race atmosphere.
I would establish some kind of central-bank like authority whose members are protected from congressional and executive-branch meddling and whose mandate is to influence the development of AI in a way that’s universally agreed to be good society. Not sure how this would look and what their levers would be, but I think something similar to the Feds mandate to balance employment and inflation, but the AI version, would be worth exploring.
Finally, I wouldn’t wait until AI has replaced people and hyper scalers are sitting on trillions to have a plan for how millions of people are supposed to make a living when they can’t find work anymore because agents and robots are doing the jobs they used to do. I think we’re still a ways away from that reality. But having a framework, better yet policies, in place would probably make people feel a lot better about the development of AI. If everyone knows they’re going to get a UBI check for 5K plus access to a solid state sponsored healthcare plan for them and their immediate family when AI makes us all redundant, I don’t think people would be so apprehensive to AI and data centers.
Again, I’m not a policy maker. I’m sure there are a bunch of externalities that people can point out to poke holes in my ideas. Be my guest.
Sitting around doing what amounts to jack shit while the technology that powers the internet seems increasingly vulnerable to the technology we’re building and distributing as fast as possible definitely is not the way to go.
The credit markets seem concerned about the timing of the AI booms future cash flows. So maybe the invisible hand will take care of the situation for awhile. I just hope the unwinding doesn’t take the rest of the economy down with it.
Either way AI is here to stay. So, even if the bubble burst, when the market inevitably comes back the same issues will be there. Better to get ahead then not.