David Wallace-Wells “But this is a very fast-moving technology, and it doesn't seem likely that any meaningful A.I. l...
David Wallace-Wells “But this is a very fast-moving technology, and it doesn't seem likely that any meaningful A.I. legislation will become law without the White House changing hands. We are now just as far from that possibility as we are from those first A.I. hearings on Capitol Hill way back in 2023, which tells us that an awful lot can change in three years. In the past three, we've gone from casual users freaking out about their first encounters with ChatGPT to the Pentagon staging industrial-strategy-level fights over whether fully autonomous A.I.s can be deployed in war zones without any human oversight. In the next three? Those exponential curves may not bring us to a new godhead, but the genie doesn't exactly look like it's going back in the bottle, either. And those hoping to play a more active role in shaping the future that it's conjuring will probably have to do more than stop ground from being broken for a few new data centers.” https://lnkd.in/e4_PQqqH