Benedict Evans recently argued that most people in tech don’t seem to care about regulation because it ‘really doesn’t affect what people are working on’. This is true, but only for a very narrow definition of ‘tech’. Lots of other applied regulation affects tech people, it’s just not explicitly about tech. We need to fix it, not erase it.
It is telling that there is no reference whatsoever to social or environmental impact - to use two broad terms. Which perhaps illustrates why tough regulation is required because the finance and tech people driving development really do not consider such issues, but are only concerned with a narrow shareholder focus - revenue and profit. They cannot be trusted to consider wider impacts, consistent with behaviour in recent decades. Especially dangerous where AI is concerned.
It is telling that there is no reference whatsoever to social or environmental impact - to use two broad terms. Which perhaps illustrates why tough regulation is required because the finance and tech people driving development really do not consider such issues, but are only concerned with a narrow shareholder focus - revenue and profit. They cannot be trusted to consider wider impacts, consistent with behaviour in recent decades. Especially dangerous where AI is concerned.