Microsoft pushes for government regulation of AI. Should we trust it?

Computerworld July 3, 2023
Preston Gralla

The generative AI gold rush is on, but there are few real guardrails now governing its use. If action isn’t taken soon, any regulations might be too late to do any good.

By now, virtually everyone agrees that powerful generative AI needs to be regulated. In its various forms, it presents a variety of potential dangers: helping authoritarian regimes, thanks to its ability to create misinformation; allowing Big Tech firms to establish monopolies; eliminating millions of jobs; taking over vital infrastructure; and — in the worst case — becoming an existential threat to humankind.

One way or another, governments around the world, including the regulation-averse United States, eventually need to set rules about how generative AI can and can’t be...

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