#artificialintelligence #120 - AI policy and its impact on technology, society and economy

Welcome to #artificialintelligence #120

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Last week, I was invited to present at Capitol hill / white house on AI.

See the context of the event in my post HERE

In this newsletter, I will expand on some of my personal perspectives from my talk.

I take an optimistic view towards AI - which was broadly reflected in my personal views

Here are some more details

1. AI policy will be based on values such as democracy and human rights in EU and USA 

2. Geopolitics of AI is based on alignment of values  i.e. countries with similar values will create compatible AI systems.

3. AI governance .. many companies already have good Responsible AI initiatives

4. I prefer Engineer to engineer solutions

5)  Data - GDPR is focussed on Data privacy and personal data. LLMs are not necessarily about personal data (see the backtracking from Italy on banning chatGPT). Innovative solutions are already being deployed ex shutterstock OpenAI partnership

6) Defense and cyber security will be a focus for AI

7)  automation is a focus extrapolating existing ideas ex automation from service now  In our course at #universityofoxford (Artificial Intelligence: Autonomous AI agents with Cloud, Generative AI & MLOps (online)) we are working with autonomous AI agents

8)  Education we need new ways to speed up education and research - especially interdisciplinary research - which I have shared my thoughts on this before.  

9)  Research and fundamental science in AI should be encouraged to get competitive advantage especially the use of AI to solve systemic / large scale problems like sustainability and climate change.

10) We need optimism for AI and the need to decouple doom and gloom - and to think how our companies and startups can leverage AI.

11) There is a precedence. Early days of YouTube(for data), Ride hailing apps for knee jerk banning calls.

12)  Let's think of young people in creating regulation i.e. see how technology can benefit the next generation instead of speculatively thinking of thinking of dystopian scenarios.

Three quotes to conclude:

Benjamin Franklin: Either we hang together or we hang separately borrowed from Nichole Francis Reynolds talk

Hon Jim Costa -  Dont bet against democracy - which I very much agree

James Elles - Victor Hugo quote - You cannot resist an idea whose time has come 

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