1. President Biden and Vice President Harris met with AI leaders this week to discuss the responsibility of the leaders of Microsoft, Google, OpenAI and others to ensure the safety of their AI-driven search engines and chatbots.
Answer: Yes, and President Biden and Vice President Harris deserve praise for taking proactive steps to protect Americans' civil liberties in the face of these rapidly emerging technologies.
2. This is likely the opening of an ongoing dialogue between AI innovators and the Biden administration.
Answer: We're very fortunate that the White House has undertaken this engagement, and there are signs that Senator Schumer, in communication with the White House, is undertaking the drafting of a bill that would regulate this realm.
3. Who might have input as these legal structures are being defined?
Answer: Geoffrey Hinton, probably the single person most knowledgable about these questions, just resigned from Google in order to be able to speak openly about his concerns regarding the dangers of emerging AI technologies. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/01/technology/ai-google-chatbot-engineer-quits-hinton.html
4. Might Geoffrey Hinton be offered a job as a consultant to guide regulatory development regarding this area?
Answer: Perhaps right away.
5. Why would it be advantageous for the United States and other nations to have Mr. Hinton's input?
Answer: He knows where the technology is today, and he knows where the technology will be in one year.
6. What are the greatest dangers?
Answer: The propagation of massive quantities of disinformation that disrupt the democracy, extensive violations of consumer privacy, aggregation of "kompromat" concerning consumers of the technology, compromise of domestic and international banking systems that control economies in total, and defense applications that could lead humanity to an existential crisis.
7. Is the Pentagon interested in battlefield AI applications?
Answer: It is. AI-driven drone applications, on which Google has been contracted to work by the Pentagon, are being justified with the assertion that our opponents will seek this technology as well.
Initially, there was widespread resistance from within Google itself to the development of AI-driven drone software for military applications.
But now, this technology is being developed and applied.
This is only one application in which the Pentagon is interested.
Clearly, there are many others.
8. What are the risks of AI being placed in charge of life-and-death decisions on the battlefield, or even in a civilian context?
Answer: I am a law-abiding American of high conscience and character who has served as a whistleblower of falsified law enforcement reporting being perpetrated by far right segments of the FBI. As such, I have had drones flying over my residence day and night. Beyond this, I have experienced the unconstitutional deployment of other military-style assaults.
What would have happened to me if drones were enabled by AI-technologies to eliminate those whistleblowers who have been falsely accused?
We can readily imagine these technologies being deployed to enforce totalitarian controls over American citizens' spoken words, writings, gatherings, readings, travels, etc.
9. You have experienced dramatically elevated ionizing radiation within your residence. Is this still occurring?
Answer: It is still occurring according to my Geiger counter, yes.
10. What other problems have you experienced recently?
Answer: According to my stalker, we are currently experiencing patterns of HAARP and close-range EMF variation that are known to cause heart attack.
11. Who is responsible?
Answer: Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Mark Millie is responsible.
And my point is, within a democracy, we never want to lose the ability to speak the truth about Constitutional violations of this nature.
We never want to dissociate unconstitutional harms from their perpetrators.
AI technology with military applications risks erasing accountability for human atrocities, which can quickly bring human civilization to a crisis point.
12. We need to retain the ability to name the names with regard to the course of human events.
Answer: Yes, exactly. Freedom means that human beings must insist on the ability to name the names.
13. Geoffrey Hinton remains staunchly opposed to military applications of AI.
Answer: He does. Mr. Hinton has engaged in some serious thinking about the fact that our military efforts need to be directed toward defending free societies against AI which is intended to be deployed in offensive contexts.
14. You believe that democracies all over the world should cooperate in designing protections against misapplications of AI.
Answer: I do. There is an opportunity to bring policy makers together on an international basis, and to do so soon. The international lines of communication among democracies must remain open and active. Policy limitations on AI-driven search engines and chatbots can be implemented on an immediate basis and refined with further input from experts.
15. AI technologies also have tremendous potential benefit, such as identifying solutions to our climate challenges.
Answer: They do, and it's critical for us to identify these benevolent potentials.
16. Can these be realized safely?
Answer: We need Geoffrey Hinton, alongside ethicists, financial experts, cybersecurity specialists, philosophers and human rights experts to gather forces in this effort.
But thanks to foresight and engagement on the part of the Biden administration, yes, I believe these safeguards can be developed in time.
Lane MacWilliams
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