One of the nation's top tech les
is calling on Congress to regule
artificial intelligence he helped create.
The CEO of Open AI says this
technology is revolutionary
but can also be dangerous.
During a hearing yesterday,
he suggested new regulations,
safety standards and a
government agency to oversee AI.
Yeah, that hearing was fascinat.
Joining us this morning to discs
how AI can be regulated is our e
News legal analyst Whitney trai.
Thanks for coming in.
Sure thing. I watched that hear.
It was interesting. I'm concern.
And you, you were getting a
lot of questions about this.
So how can AI even be regulated?
Well, how can it be regulated?
It's it's like so many things with the law,
the law really trails what happs
in our lives. So for example,
it was 911 that led to the Patrt
Act and in 2008 with the mortgage bus,
we had all these regulations.
With George Floyd, we ended up having
the police accountability bill.
So in many ways, the law has to trail
what we're doing and a lot of ts
it's bad acts that lead to righ.
If we if we did the right thing,
then you don't even know what to change.
We don't need any regulation.
And so here that's the issue is that A,
I is moving so quickly that they're Congress,
Senate, they're they're really
worried about these regulations.
And so they're contemplating
should we put in a new governmet
agency to just focus on this,
which honestly, you know,
people are saying get the
government out of our lives.
But I think that is just like we
had TSA and Homeland Security,
all these new government agenci.
I think we will need a new government
agency just to look at this because it's.
Really evolving faster than
I think we can deal with it,
Yeah. So Speaking of that evolu,
let's talk about the legal side of things.
I mean, what are some of the
legal issues that you and other
legal experts are seeing with A?
Well, I've been studying this because I'm new
to it as well and the technology is really.
It just goes so fast and I don't
think people really appreciate .
So there's four primary
issues that I looked at.
One is data privacy and protect.
Because when you look at how a I works,
it's just like YouTube or whate.
When you get these algorithms ad
they start suggesting videos,
that's based on so much data.
And so what's happened is the question
is the data privacy and protect,
Are we consenting?
As a I starting to gather some of this stuff,
then of course there's.
Bias and discrimination.
They know, for example, facial recognition,
women of color, that's a major issue.
And so there's questions about accuracy.
Then you have liability.
Who's responsible if a I is
starting to make its own decisi?
Is it the proprietor of the A I,
or is a I responsible?
And and then of course the
intellectual property, who owns.
So those are the.
Kind of primary issues,
but I'll tell you it's much more
nuanced than there's many more
issues that we don't have enough
time in 3 minutes and 45 second.
I'm always trying to get
more time, everybody.
What are you seeing in terms ofe
harm or damages when it comes to a I?
Well there's a lot of harm just
in one the the data gathering.
There's a lot of data that theye
gathering that we're not really consenting.
There's of course it's in the the fine
print to some extent no one rea.
That's exactly right.
And I heard I was watching the the Senate
hearings and I was watching somf
the interviews and the the chairman of
Microsoft put it a good way, he said.
Steve Jobs said that the computr
is like a bicycle for the mind.
And that's a beautiful way to
explain it and say, hey,
this is how it can be used
for us and in our benefit.
But now he's saying with AI,
it's almost as if AI is now our copilot.
And which is fine.
But when the copilot then starts
to figure out and and and advane
in ways that we can't, and they,
you know, they're playing chess,
translating languages,
these are all things that requie
high cognitive abilities.
And so if the copilot is doing
that and then the copilot says,
well, I got it from here.
That's that's a real issue.
So that analogy I think is appropriate.
Literally the plot line of every Horse scifi
movie right there like open the
pod Bay doors now. Sorry Dave,
I can't do that. Space Odyssey
I Robot, all these movies are ry
I think telling and it's it's it
is here now we're at that place.
Well we know we're gonna have
a lot more questions coming up
in the future for you Whitney.
I'll be here. Thanks for coming.