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Ben Halpern
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The White House signaled support for potential new AI regulations

Substantive news in the future of AI.

Thoughts?

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Red Ochsenbein (he/him) • Edited

Great. As long as they balance the industry people with AI safety and ethics experts. But I honestly doubt it. To see Hugging Face in there is at least one good sign.

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Ben Halpern

To see Hugging Face in there is at least one good sign.

I agree β€” without having an idea about what might be next here, what we need at the very least are somewhat of a diversity of reasonable perspectives in industry.

I imagine everyone is quite skeptical about the effectiveness of the next steps here, but that is, indeed, a notable positive.

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lionel-rowe

Yeah it's always a bad sign when the headline is "following a meeting with CEOs of [companies where increased regulation will directly hurt their bottom line]". Not even safety/alignment experts from those same companies (as if that wouldn't already be enough of a conflict of interest), the freakin' CEOs. The people whose literal job description is maximizing shareholder profits.

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Kowal Rob πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ πŸ‡΅πŸ‡± πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦

Incumbents trying to capture the market through regulation. Zero "good intentions" here, all about keeping competition out :)

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Mike Talbot ⭐

The real problem is that this is going to spread beyond North America and Western Europe - it's an invisible thing, I'd bet it already has...

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Parker Waiters

Really interesting to see this start happening for real.