Tech in the 2020’s is a fascinating and complex beast. Innovation is still a key driver of its insatiable appetites, as we see in real time by the new AI arms race. But in this decade, Regulation is shaping up to be tech’s New New Thing.
There are now more than 26,000 co-signatories to the Future of Life Institute’s public letter calling for a six-month pause in the development of AI beyond GPT 4.0. Each day brings the publication of scores of new academic papers ruminating on the right design and mix of standards, frameworks and guardrails to ensure that AI nurtures the next positive evolution of humanity rather than the death of it.
Suddenly the word “responsible” is everywhere. Much like the addition of the letter “e” was to companies staking a claim to the first dotcom boom, “responsible” is now the prefix for thousands of new non-profit and for-profit enterprises all looking to be seen as serious about a generative AI boom that is safe for human application and consumption.
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