To the editor: Bravo to Anita Chabria — and the Los Angeles Occasions for retaining her as a employees columnist — for sounding such a transparent name to the lay public about AI’s most imminent hazard (“Wipe out a ‘civilization’? Minor stuff in contrast with what simply occurred in AI,” April 10).
Reasonably than leaving the subsequent step within the fingers of the personal sector, Congress should acknowledge, because it has recurrently completed prior to now, that development in a brand new section of the financial system is now so giant as to mandate federal oversight and regulation to guard the protection and safety of all People. That’s the historical past of congressional oversight of the railroads, the banking business, finance, industrial aviation and Twentieth-century telecommunications. That point is right here once more.
Now could be the time for Congress to ascertain a federal AI regulatory and oversight board just like the Federal Reserve Board in its broad powers, independence, professional appointees and cream-of-the-crop employees.
To the objection that it’s not possible to think about that occurring within the present political local weather, the reply is it’s extra insane to think about the choice.
We don’t get to decide on the time and place of our best challenges. We solely get to decide on whether or not we rise to satisfy them or not.
David Schulman, Los Angeles
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To the editor: In her latest opinion piece, Chabria stated that the issue with Anthropic’s Mythos and different synthetic intelligence packages is that “they hardly ever do what we count on and discover sneaky methods round guidelines. Nearly each AI super-brain created has been proven to lie, deceive, and usually behave in disturbing and unethical methods when put in the correct situations.”
So, in different phrases, they’re youngsters. Let’s hope we’re all nonetheless right here after they develop up.
Curtis Scott, Anderson, Calif.
