I do still think there are regulation decisions which can be enforced which would create somewhat measurable trade offs or improvements. Just a small example that was in the EU AI Act was requiring that if content is made using Gen AI, it must be disclosed that this is the case. While, yes, this would not be perfectly effective, that is …
I do still think there are regulation decisions which can be enforced which would create somewhat measurable trade offs or improvements. Just a small example that was in the EU AI Act was requiring that if content is made using Gen AI, it must be disclosed that this is the case. While, yes, this would not be perfectly effective, that is a problem with a lot of regulation, and in my mind is not a good argument for not enforcing it now as much as we can while we work on better methods of implementation. Even a tenant like the ban on the development on facial recognition software passes the test of being tractable in terms of a what, how, and why. There are definite tradeoffs being made there, but at least the tradeoffs are defined. It is a nebulous landscape, for sure. But my priors do actually lie with the idea that the tech industry, which I don't see as fundamentally different in regards to externalities compared to something like the oil industry, doesn't really have the incentive to regulate themselves in accordance with overall social good.
I do still think there are regulation decisions which can be enforced which would create somewhat measurable trade offs or improvements. Just a small example that was in the EU AI Act was requiring that if content is made using Gen AI, it must be disclosed that this is the case. While, yes, this would not be perfectly effective, that is a problem with a lot of regulation, and in my mind is not a good argument for not enforcing it now as much as we can while we work on better methods of implementation. Even a tenant like the ban on the development on facial recognition software passes the test of being tractable in terms of a what, how, and why. There are definite tradeoffs being made there, but at least the tradeoffs are defined. It is a nebulous landscape, for sure. But my priors do actually lie with the idea that the tech industry, which I don't see as fundamentally different in regards to externalities compared to something like the oil industry, doesn't really have the incentive to regulate themselves in accordance with overall social good.