If only the government had the ability to regulate this kind of thing…
socoolandawesome on
Senator Warner, a democrat, talks about the rapid AI progress and what lies ahead in terms of economic effects, expressing alarm.
> “I don’t think the government’s ready. I don’t think society’s ready,” Warner said. “Short term, next three to five years, the economic disruption is going to be — I just think we are not ready at all.”
Warner is “widely regarded as one of the most read-in U.S. lawmakers on technology issues” so it’s probably prudent to take his warning. What do you think?
Princeps32 on
I mean it sucks. there is a small group of people who will make short term money and everyone else who will be badly hurt, and our current government even were it functional and not filled with conservative zealots won’t act at all until the fire is actively burning.
fail-deadly- on
The U.S. government should take part of its military budget to procure enough data center capacity to train a frontier AI model, and then either through distillation or training, create a model equal to the purported likes of the upcoming Spud and Mythos models as well as a smaller model capable of running on cell phones. Then begin to use it on government systems, so they are not beholden to any company. Hell maybe even start with GLM 5.1 or DeepSeek V4 when it comes out.
Working with US libraries, schools, and Universities they should work to provide all US citizens/legal residents access to the models.
The government also needs to promote a crash program for humanoid robotic development. China seems to have a huge lead here, with Unitree and others seemingly being able to innovate as fast as Boston Dynamics and Figure, but also being far cheaper and more widespread.
Finally, there need to be contingency plans to nationalize and or seize or even destroy any and all AI companies that develops a recursive self improving AI that start getting out of hand. The first regulation with this in mind should be getting true insight into all the big companies, by embedding government AI experts into all the companies.
We need to encourage additional development cause we’re not there yet, but be ready for it.
Stop worrying and start planning.
Firm_Relative_7283 on
I would love to see AI used to run the backoffice of thousands of new small businesses operated in a way that is sustainable and restorative for our planet and our communities. With AI, people should be able to launch and operate small businesses more easily than in the past – hopefully helping to offset job losses in larger companies from AI automation. It would be great in the US if the Small Business Association supported the creation and rollout of an AI driven backoffice system.
BalerionSanders on
Don’t worry! It’s largely a scam to prop up valuations. It will likely not take most peoples’ jobs, as it is simply incapable in its current model dynamic of doing almost everything hyped for its future.
Unfortunately the collapse of that scam narrative in the future will cause all sorts of *other* problems, and impoverish just as many people.
blakejwise on
Economy is always changing – from the invention of the steam engine, the calculator, to AI. It’s just another tool.
AI comes with risk – but risk mitigation is nothing new either. Look at the EU AI Act as an example. AI can support you, but you need to know how you trained it (what data you used) and you need to supervise it.
AI is not the problem, the misguided assumptions from SciFi movies that are overlayed to what AI really is make it problematic.
00xjOCMD on
If you want to be actually terrified, see how Senator Mark Warner prepares a tuna melt.
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If only the government had the ability to regulate this kind of thing…
Senator Warner, a democrat, talks about the rapid AI progress and what lies ahead in terms of economic effects, expressing alarm.
> “I don’t think the government’s ready. I don’t think society’s ready,” Warner said. “Short term, next three to five years, the economic disruption is going to be — I just think we are not ready at all.”
Warner is “widely regarded as one of the most read-in U.S. lawmakers on technology issues” so it’s probably prudent to take his warning. What do you think?
I mean it sucks. there is a small group of people who will make short term money and everyone else who will be badly hurt, and our current government even were it functional and not filled with conservative zealots won’t act at all until the fire is actively burning.
The U.S. government should take part of its military budget to procure enough data center capacity to train a frontier AI model, and then either through distillation or training, create a model equal to the purported likes of the upcoming Spud and Mythos models as well as a smaller model capable of running on cell phones. Then begin to use it on government systems, so they are not beholden to any company. Hell maybe even start with GLM 5.1 or DeepSeek V4 when it comes out.
Working with US libraries, schools, and Universities they should work to provide all US citizens/legal residents access to the models.
The government also needs to promote a crash program for humanoid robotic development. China seems to have a huge lead here, with Unitree and others seemingly being able to innovate as fast as Boston Dynamics and Figure, but also being far cheaper and more widespread.
Finally, there need to be contingency plans to nationalize and or seize or even destroy any and all AI companies that develops a recursive self improving AI that start getting out of hand. The first regulation with this in mind should be getting true insight into all the big companies, by embedding government AI experts into all the companies.
We need to encourage additional development cause we’re not there yet, but be ready for it.
Stop worrying and start planning.
I would love to see AI used to run the backoffice of thousands of new small businesses operated in a way that is sustainable and restorative for our planet and our communities. With AI, people should be able to launch and operate small businesses more easily than in the past – hopefully helping to offset job losses in larger companies from AI automation. It would be great in the US if the Small Business Association supported the creation and rollout of an AI driven backoffice system.
Don’t worry! It’s largely a scam to prop up valuations. It will likely not take most peoples’ jobs, as it is simply incapable in its current model dynamic of doing almost everything hyped for its future.
Unfortunately the collapse of that scam narrative in the future will cause all sorts of *other* problems, and impoverish just as many people.
Economy is always changing – from the invention of the steam engine, the calculator, to AI. It’s just another tool.
AI comes with risk – but risk mitigation is nothing new either. Look at the EU AI Act as an example. AI can support you, but you need to know how you trained it (what data you used) and you need to supervise it.
AI is not the problem, the misguided assumptions from SciFi movies that are overlayed to what AI really is make it problematic.
If you want to be actually terrified, see how Senator Mark Warner prepares a tuna melt.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1Ge6fzwaxE](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1Ge6fzwaxE)