#regulation

It's very US-centric, but then much of AI discourse is. What I like about this piece from Matt Stoller is that it gets to the heart of what's going on here: corruption.

We no longer live in a land where people are “innocent until proven guilty,” the actual rule of law as practiced is “guilty until proven wealthy.” The Supreme Court even gave Wall Street an exemption from the Constitution in securing bankers their own independent regulator, even though no one else gets a regulator free from Presidential demands. Oh, and let’s not even talk about laws that purport to constrain illegal wars or war crimes.

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I'd like to think that something will come of this initial finding against Meta for being in breach of the Digital Services Act.

I'm hopeful, if only because WhatsApp isn't included in this. It's very difficult for legislatures in this day and age to meaningfully find against social infrastructure (which is what WhatsApp has become in Europe) but it's much easier to regulate social media.

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I'm not sure my responses to this series of 29 questions warrant the tag 'true believer' but I haven't looked into the methodology of this 'AI Compass'.

Essentially my position is that AI is more consequential and useful than things like Blockchain, that it should be better regulated, and that it allows most people to do things they weren't able to do before.

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