This week, I appeared on the Tech Freedom Tech Policy Podcast to discuss “Who’s Afraid of Artificial Intelligence?” It’s an in-depth, wide-ranging conversation about all things AI related. Here’s a summary of what host what Corbin Barthold and I discussed:
1. The “little miracles happening every day” thanks to AI
2. Is AI a “born free” technology?
3. Potential anti-competitive effects of AI regulation
4. The flurry of joint letters
5. new AI regulatory agency political realities
6. the EU’s Precautionary Principle tech policy disaster
7. The looming “war on computation” & open source
8. The role of common law for AI
9. Is Sam Altman breaking the very laws he proposes?
10. Do we need an IAEA for AI or an “AI Island”
11. Nick Bostrom’s global control & surveillance model
12. Why “doom porn” dominates in academic circles
13. Will AI take all the jobs?
14. Smart regulation of algorithmic technology
15. How the “pacing problem” is sometimes the “pacing benefit”
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