A Reminder From Lina Khan: We Don’t Need New Laws to Prosecute CEOs at AI Companies
The internet, as you’ve undoubtedly noticed, has been aflame in recent days with fears of an AI-triggered apocalypse. For some—most notably Donald Trump—it’s all overblown doomerism. Meanwhile, some have also warned of possible regulatory capture spearheaded by a tiny handful of so-called “frontier” AI developers: basically a new techno-oligarchical regime where companies, not federal regulators, call the shots for the future of their industry, and by extension for that of all of humanity.
- ▪The internet, as you’ve undoubtedly noticed, has been aflame in recent days with fears of an AI-triggered apocalypse.
- ▪For some—most notably Donald Trump—it’s all overblown doomerism.
- ▪Meanwhile, some have also warned of possible regulatory capture spearheaded by a tiny handful of so-called “frontier” AI developers: basically a new techno-oligarchical regime where companies, not federal regulators, call the shots for the
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The internet, as you’ve undoubtedly noticed, has been aflame in recent days with fears of an AI-triggered apocalypse. For some—most notably Donald Trump—it’s all overblown doomerism. But for many others, it’s a long overdue reckoning with an industry and a technology that’s been allowed to fly out of control.cnx.cmd.push(function(){cnx({"playerId":"92b7b46b-43ed-4e0e-b21b-2c999302d9d7","settings":{"advertising":{"macros":{"AD_UNIT":"/23178111854/od.gizmodo.com/article","CHILD_UNIT":"article","POST_ID":"2000811503","POST_TYPE":"post","CHANNEL":"tech","SECTION":"artificial-intelligence","SUBSECTION":"","CATEGORIES":"artificial-intelligence","TAGS":"ai,ai-safety,federal-trade-commission,lina-khan","NOP":"0"},"timeBeforeFirstAd":0}}}).render("cnx-player-main")}); Among that latter group,…
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