Governments don’t consistently over-regulate. They consistently regulate poorly. For example cracking down on illegal skateboarding but not shoplifting or public consumption of drugs.
In AI, the predictable outcome of this is lots of regulations about AI bias and basically nothing that actually helps notkilleveryone.
Furthermore, given the long history of government regulation having unintended consequences as a result of companies and private individuals optimizing their actions to take advantage of the regulation, it might be the case that government overregulation makes a catastrophic outcome more likely.
For example cracking down on illegal skateboarding but not shoplifting
This seems like an exaggeration. Shoplifting is still literally illegal in San Francisco and you will be stopped by police and charged with a crime if you do it sufficiently often in the open. I agree with the general point that regulatory priorities are often misplaced, however.
Governments don’t consistently over-regulate. They consistently regulate poorly. For example cracking down on illegal skateboarding but not shoplifting or public consumption of drugs.
In AI, the predictable outcome of this is lots of regulations about AI bias and basically nothing that actually helps notkilleveryone.
Furthermore, given the long history of government regulation having unintended consequences as a result of companies and private individuals optimizing their actions to take advantage of the regulation, it might be the case that government overregulation makes a catastrophic outcome more likely.
This seems like an exaggeration. Shoplifting is still literally illegal in San Francisco and you will be stopped by police and charged with a crime if you do it sufficiently often in the open. I agree with the general point that regulatory priorities are often misplaced, however.