more has happened in the last year of AI than the prior 10 we are unmistakably in the fiery takeoff of the most important technology of the rest of our lives everybody—governments, citizens, technologists—is awaiting w/bated breath (some helplessly) the next version of humanity
REGULATION
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Open Source AI Regulation Debate Intensifies
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But the raging debate at the moment is almost entirely about the potential regulation of open source AI platforms. No one is seriously claiming that AI-based products should not be regulated.
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Open Source Airliner Firmware Requires Certification Compliance
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Open Source AI Software Should Not Be Regulated Like Products
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Regulating AI *products* makes sense, depending on the application domain. But regulating *open source AI software* makes zero sense.
There are no other domains where open source software is regulated. There is no reason to treat open source AI software differently from open -
AI Power Redistribution: Tools for Good and Evil
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AI is about to redistribute power like never before.This means that everyone will have access to tools that can be used for good or for evil.
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Regulated Institutions Compliance With Legal Warrants
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This is why ~every regulated institution will say very similarly worded variants on a core truth: “If we are shown a valid warrant, we will comply with it. We have people that have nothing to do but that.”
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Regulated Institutions Face Regulatory Scrutiny Over Evasion Tactics
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If you’re a regulated institution and put up a cute thing on your website to evade regulation your next conversation with your regulator will have a very unfortunate tenor.
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Regulatory Jurisdiction Shopping and Legal Process Evasion
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The concern is that that would let organizations which specialize in playing Bank Account Whackamole depart to a new “jurisdiction” when 90% through due process instance #5274 and then get another few months of services society doesn’t want them to have.
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Legal Confidentiality Obligations Under US Law Compliance
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Note that that doesn’t merely say “Don’t tell a customer about a SAR” it says “If you are compelled to testify as to something which could reveal a SAR under the ordinary operation of the laws of the United States you shall refuse to do so, using the following language.”
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Banks’ Survey Data Resistance to Tech Change
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Many people in tech believe this and it is important to understand that this is untrue, and that the manifest ability of banks to point to a mountain of survey data from a large fraction of American spectrum is one reason achieving change is so hard.