Regulation of AI – Yes or No?
AI CEOs including Dario Amodei, issued a call to ‘slow the pace’ of AI. After one of Anthropic’s researchers quit last week, saying that AI could kill all of humanity by 2030, Amodei issued a proposal this weekend to slow down the tech’s advancement to ensure public safety. OpenAI, Google and even Twitter posted support for the proposal.
From the other side of the pond, British lawmakers are calling for new legislation to address the threat AI may pose to human rights, including demands that some AI systems must clear regulatory guardrails before they can be deployed. This comes after a panel of the UK Parliament issued a report that concluded that no one in the UK regulatory system has the power to stop an AI model from being released. They even proposed a bill that would outright ban certain uses of AI.
Beijing said that all parties should work together on AI. “Fearmongering, confrontation and vicious competition will only disrupt the process of global AI governance which serves no one’s interest,” spokesperson Guo Jiakun said at a regular press conference on Monday.
Trump dismissed calls for regulation to slow down AI development. He said that the US was leading China (in some areas this is true; in other areas it is false) and whoever wins the AI race wins.
China also said that the call by US AI companies was an effort to slow down China’s efforts to win at AI.
And, not surprisingly, Trump claims he is the only guardrail AI needs and slams the calls for more regulation. He said that ONLY HE could ensure the safe use of AI in the US because, of course, he has a high IQ. He said that Amodei was an alarmist and that the administration has stopped AI people from doing bad or potentially bad “things”. Like, for example, how he stopped AIs from breaking into companies like Hugging Face and others. He closed saying Conspiracy theorists, treasonists, traitors and leakers beware.
The reality is that figuring out how to reign in AI and whether we should and to what extent is a global problem. Getting everyone to agree will be next to if not impossible and enforcing any rules will be even harder. This is the reality of 2026 and beyond.
Credit: The Guardian
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