The ongoing debate over artificial intelligence safety has been reignited following the scrapping of Joe Biden's AI safety accords by Donald Trump. This move has alarmed many experts who previously called for a pause in AI research due to its rapid, unchecked growth. As nations like France and India prepare to co-host an international summit aimed at establishing safety protocols, the US pivot towards an aggressive $500 billion AI infrastructure plan complicates the safety narrative. Experts emphasize the need for stringent testing standards to protect against potential threats posed by AI, especially concerning economic and national security.
AI companies had been compelled to share their safety testing of new models with the US government before they were released to the public, to ensure that they did not damage America's economic, social or security interests.
All noble stuff but consign to history such initiatives to protect human agency, indeed humanity, from the wholesale outsourcing of our decisions to machines.
But what gives its scrapping real menace was that it was accompanied by the launch of $500bn spending over the next four years on the new AI Stargate project.
Trump egregiously attacked Biden's AI safety order as anti-free speech and anti-innovation.
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