When a bunch of billionaires and giant corporations…

CEOs tell senators: Time to regulate AI

…ask the government to regulate what they're doing, it means one of two things:

1) Stop us before we blow up the world (again)

or

2) We've got this; make it hard for anybody else to get some too.

In the case of AI, my money's on 2).

I'm not the only one who thinks that, I guess. In a recent Axios survey of 213 computer science experts from 65 universities, only 16 would trust Congress to regulate AI and only three would trust the private sector. Guess who wants to do it.

A lot of Americans, at least, seem to want it done.

A long line of technical innovations, from automobiles to airplanes, from telegraphy to telephony, radio to TV, and the internet itself started out as the province of dreamers and hobbyists and wound up commercialized, corporatized, and homogenized. And relatively safe. One imagines AI will wind up that way too.