Being seen as impeding work and being in the way of money making is the quickest way out of the position where you can affect decision making. Erecting prohibitions would do that.
Disagree. A lot of times management would put someone in the position of writing policy as a matter of pure delegation, in which case they’d want a sensible policy that constrains the business in line with that business’ unique risks. Writing too lax of a policy is worse than writing one that has some restrictions that make sense in the context of what they are actually building. Writing good policy will put you in a better position to write policy in the future.
That said, policy about general AI when the company isn’t going to build general AI is not good. It’s better to focus on realistic scenarios.
Disagree. A lot of times management would put someone in the position of writing policy as a matter of pure delegation, in which case they’d want a sensible policy that constrains the business in line with that business’ unique risks. Writing too lax of a policy is worse than writing one that has some restrictions that make sense in the context of what they are actually building. Writing good policy will put you in a better position to write policy in the future.
That said, policy about general AI when the company isn’t going to build general AI is not good. It’s better to focus on realistic scenarios.