The White House Puts New Guardrails on Government Use of AI
WiredOCT 2023
While we must be cautious around these novel technologies, this news should excite every taxpayer who wants their money well cared for and spent. With machine learning, AI can constantly improve its skills to detect patterns of fraud in milliseconds. We'll always need humans to ensure proper use, but with the help of AI, criminals should prepare for a hard road ahead.
While the government offers nice platitudes about using AI for good while restraining its bad aspects, the truth is that the corporations who own these technologies also own the government. The US federal government, which played a significant role in funding AI development, is now handing it over to corporations to control every aspect of our lives.
There is a 50% chance that an artificial intelligence will be mentioned in a constitution of a major sovereign country by 2039, according to the Metaculus prediction community.
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