AI Danger Gets Real
economist.comIn the past week an extraordinary fight over artificial intelligence has broken out. The Trump administration’s row with Anthropic, one of America’s leading ai labs, over the Pentagon’s access to its models will be a test of who controls the world’s most potent technology. Its outcome will shape everything from America’s national security to the development of ai. It could also make an ai-enabled disaster more likely.
Ignoring one's feelings about the current personalities involved: do we want a democratically elected government in charge of AI? Or do we want unelected companies and their billionaire bosses to be in charge of AI?
*glances at Google and Apple*
Is there really that much of a difference? We've given tech corporations total autonomy before, it doesn't usually end up with principled resistance.