Adding to this: AI is already being regulated. In the EU, you could argue that previous regulations (like GDPR) already had some impacts on AI, but regardless, the EU is now working on an AI Act that will unambiguously regulate AI broadly. The current proposal (also see some discussion on the EA forum) contains some lines that are related to and could set some precedents for truthfulness-releated topics, such as:
[prohibiting] the placing on the market, putting into service or use of an AI system that deploys subliminal techniques beyond a person’s consciousness in order to materially distort a person’s behaviour in a manner that causes or is likely to cause that person or another person physical or psychological harm
and
Providers shall ensure that AI systems intended to interact with natural persons are designed and developed in such a way that natural persons are informed that they are interacting with an AI system, unless this is obvious from the circumstances and the context of use.
There’s not yet any concrete regulation that I know I’d be excited about pushing (truthfulness-related or otherwise). But I would expect further work to yield decent guesses about what kind of regulation is likely to be better/worse; and I’d be surprised if the answer was to ignore the space or oppose all regulation.
(Although I should note: Even if there will doubtlessly be some regulation of AI in general, that doesn’t mean that there’ll be regulation of all potentially-important subareas of AI. And insofar as there’s currently little attention on regulation of particular sub-areas (including e.g. regulation that mentions alignment, or regulation of narrowly construed AI truthfulness), the situation with regards to pushing for regulation in those areas might be more similar to the general AI/regulation situation from 5 years ago.)
Adding to this: AI is already being regulated. In the EU, you could argue that previous regulations (like GDPR) already had some impacts on AI, but regardless, the EU is now working on an AI Act that will unambiguously regulate AI broadly. The current proposal (also see some discussion on the EA forum) contains some lines that are related to and could set some precedents for truthfulness-releated topics, such as:
and
There’s not yet any concrete regulation that I know I’d be excited about pushing (truthfulness-related or otherwise). But I would expect further work to yield decent guesses about what kind of regulation is likely to be better/worse; and I’d be surprised if the answer was to ignore the space or oppose all regulation.
(Although I should note: Even if there will doubtlessly be some regulation of AI in general, that doesn’t mean that there’ll be regulation of all potentially-important subareas of AI. And insofar as there’s currently little attention on regulation of particular sub-areas (including e.g. regulation that mentions alignment, or regulation of narrowly construed AI truthfulness), the situation with regards to pushing for regulation in those areas might be more similar to the general AI/regulation situation from 5 years ago.)