Do you think AI should be regulated by governments, or should the market regulate it instead?
When I was reading TechCrunch today, I came across Jensen Huang’s (NVIDIA CEO) view that AI safety should be handled by companies through engineering and market pressure, rather than through new regulation.
In my opinion, the power of consumers and the public is sometimes simply not strong enough to counterbalance large technology companies. That’s why I believe governments sometimes need to step in and establish rules and regulations.
Do you think AI should be regulated by governments or by the market?
I personally think that there should be a hybrid form of regulation. I completely dislike the idea of regulating the development and use of AI and how the EU is approaching it, but at the same time I appreciate the initiative that, for example, protects copyright and the ethical use of AI.
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Markets have always regulated first, whatever ships gets tested by users before any governmental agency looks at it. So governments had time to study what already happened before writing rules. That gap is gone now, models change faster than any hearing schedule, so regulation either arrives already stale or gets written by people who never had time to learn the thing they're regulating. The pace is the actual problem here.
our coding agent once generated status report with completely unmeasured metric, took us full day to trace back to placeholder. Market incentives reward shipping fast, not catching 'confident' fakes. Plus without legal liability for false outputs, nobody verifies what models invent
Well, as much as I respect Jensen.. I take his opinion with a grain of salt; he has a vested interest there, so his opinion is biased.
On the other hand, EU regulators sitting in their high castle in Brussels- most of them are theorists. What do they know about tech? History shows their legislation is not only inapplicable but also kills innovation.
So my answer: minimalist framework. Asimov has already written the laws; why not just copy them?
The Three Laws
First Law: A robot cannot harm a human or allow one to come to harm through inaction.
Second Law: A robot must obey human orders, unless they conflict with the First Law.
Third Law: A robot must protect its own existence, provided this does not conflict with the First or Second Law