Sen. Schumer (D-NY) has introduced an formidable plan to provide a bipartisan AI regulation program in a matter of months. Jordan Schneider admires the undertaking; I am extra skeptical. The remainder of our commentators, Chessie Lockhart and Michael Ellis, additionally weigh in on AI points. Chessie lays out the case in opposition to panicking over existential AI threats, this week canvassed within the MIT Expertise Evaluation. I recommend that anybody complaining that the EU or China is getting forward of the US in AI regulation (lookin’ at you, Sen Warner!) would not fairly perceive the race we’re operating. Jordan explains the issue the US faces in making an attempt to maintain China from shocking us in AI.
Michael catches us up on Canada’s ill-advised effort to drive Google and Meta to pay Canadian media each time a person hyperlinks to a Canadian story. Meta has already stated it might slightly ban such hyperlinks. The top end result may very well be that much more Canadian information will get filtered by American media, hardly a well-liked consequence north of the border.
Talking of ill-advised regulatory initiatives, Michael and I touch upon Australia’s threatening Twitter with a wonderful for permitting an excessive amount of hate speech on the platform post-Elon.
Chessie provides an outline of the DELETE Act, a comparatively modest bipartisan effort to control information brokers’ management of non-public information.
Michael and I speak concerning the rising stress between EU member states with actual nationwide safety obligations and the Brussels institution, which has loved a 70-year vacation from nationwide safety historical past and expects the subsequent 70 to be extra of the identical. The newest battle is over how a lot leeway to present member States after they really feel the necessity to plant spyware and adware on journalists’ telephones. Remarkably, either side suppose authorities ought to have such leeway; the struggle is over how a lot.
Michael and I are shocked that the BBC feels obliged to ask, “Why is it so uncommon to listen to about Western cyber-attacks?” As a result of, BBC, the companies finishing up these assaults are on our aspect and principally respect guidelines we assist.
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