There should be no regulation of artificial intelligence. Here’s why
<p>These days, in the sphere of public debate, there’s a rule I try to remember. Namely, that if I come across the same idea twice in a week, it’s probably a bad idea. And if I see it a third time, it’s surely a terrible one. Ideas that are easily repeated are too simple to do justice to a nuanced problem.</p>
<p>At the moment, there are a lot of bad ideas circulating on the topic of regulating artificial intelligence.</p>
<p>What seems extraordinary is that people who should know better are leading the charge of bad ideas. People like Max Tegmark, physicist and author of bestselling book <em>Life 3.0</em>, or Geoffrey Hinton, an AI scientist nicknamed the “Godfather of AI”.</p>
<p>They and others are sprinting after Elon Musk, who was running solo until recently. It’s as if they were playing a futuristic version of <em>Pascal’s wager</em>, and covering their bases just in case an AI God turns out to exist, however infinitesimal the chances.</p>
<p><strong>I will explain here why, for the time being, AI should not be regulated</strong> — that there is no present reason to regulate it, and that the arguments for regulation are ill-thought, misconceived and frankly, unintelligent.</p>
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