To the editor: Bravo to Anita Chabria — and the Los Angeles Occasions for retaining her as a workers columnist — for sounding such a transparent name to the lay public about AI’s most imminent hazard (“Wipe out a ‘civilization’? Minor stuff compared with what just happened in AI,” April 10).
Reasonably than leaving the subsequent step within the palms of the personal sector, Congress should acknowledge, because it has recurrently performed prior to now, that progress in a brand new section of the economic 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 trade, finance, business aviation and Twentieth-century telecommunications. That point is right here once more.
Now’s the time for Congress to determine 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 workers.
To the objection that it’s unattainable 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 biggest 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 current opinion piece, Chabria stated that the issue with Anthropic’s Mythos and different synthetic intelligence applications 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 typically behave in disturbing and unethical methods when put in the fitting situations.”
So, in different phrases, they’re youngsters. Let’s hope we’re all nonetheless right here once they develop up.
Curtis Scott, Anderson, Calif.
