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Adam Thierer

@AdamThierer

May 16 • 8 tweets • 5 min read Twitter logo

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big day for #artificalintelligence policy w Senate Judiciary hearing at 10EST on regulating #AI, possibly even with a new licensing regime for #artificalintelligence.

Here's link to livestream: judiciary.senate.gov/committee-acti… [plus there's another AI hearing today]

at the AI hearing, I expect the usual amount of heated, panicky rhetoric plus suggestions for being more like Europe w something along the lines of an 'FDA for Artificial intelligence,' licensing for AI providers or NEPA for algorithms.
On that idea... medium.com/@AdamThierer/n…

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is apparently going to suggest some sort of formal licensing regime for AI + a new federal bureaucracy. It's common for incumbents to raise the walls against competition, but it's a huge mistake for the public & US competitiveness. 👎🏼reuters.com/technology/ope…

@sama

here's what OpenAI's Sam Altman (@sama) should instead being saying at this #AI hearing regarding what an important chance the U.S. has to again be the global leader on emerging tech using a balanced, pro-innovation governance framework:
rstreet.org/commentary/wha… @RSI

@RSI

It is essential that the U.S. be a leader in #AI to ensure our continued global competitive standing & geopolitical security. To do so, we must avoid overly burdensome mandates that undermine AI’s benefits to the public and the nation as a whole. thehill.com/opinion/congre… @RSI

@RSI

in my recent @RSI study on "Getting Innovation Culture Right," I explore the disastrous history of licensing for communications & media, and explain why America rejected it for the Internet. We must reject it for #AI, too:
rstreet.org/research/getti…

@RSI

the U.S. must reject the E.U.'s innovation-killing top-down model of AI regulation and instead embrace a more flexible, bottom-up governance approach for #artificalintelligence. Here's my big @RSI study on how to strike that balance: rstreet.org/research/flexi…

also, I bet no one at the Senate AI hearing today mentions the First Amendment issues at stake here as the govt looks to create a massive new AI information control regime via licensing regs & new bureaucracies. Stay tuned.

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