There is a certain irony regarding how the crowd saying we need to “make artificial intelligence more democratic” appear to be the same people essentially tossing the actual democratic process straight out the window for AI policymaking. …

The Brookings Institution hosted this excellent event on frontier AI regulation this week featuring a panel discussion I was on that followed opening remarks from Rep. Ted Lieu (D-CA). I come in around the 51-min mark of the event video and explain why I worry that AI policy now threatens…

It seems that each week now brings more radical ideas for regulating artificial intelligence (AI) as America inches closer to an all-out government war on computation and automation. Four AI hearings are taking place in Washington this week alone, although one of them is a closed-door session that Senate Majority…

Europe’s ambassador to Silicon Valley has a clear message for American tech companies and U.S. policymakers: The European Union runs the show now, and you need to get in line with their regulatory program. …

Meta announced today that it is opening up its 70-billion parameter “Large Language Model Meta AI” (LLaMA 2) for open source commercial use and research. …

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has become increasingly active on artificial intelligence (AI) policy issues and is positioning itself to serve as America’s de facto AI regulator. The agency is doing this without any congressional authorization by stretching its existing authority to cover all things algorithmic.​​ If the FTC’s actions…

As I discussed in a recent essay here and another one with Neil Chilson, we are hearing more calls from policymakers and academics to apply some sort of licensing scheme to artificial intelligence (AI) systems. Details tend to be murky, with most pundits casually proposing AI licensing without really explaining…

Last year I went around telling everyone that I had a new book coming out on artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics policy. I indeed finished it, but then never released it. Why? …

There are many different perspectives on artificial intelligence and AI policy, but I’ve come to think ​about four generalized worldviews. ​I refer to them as: ​ (1) Accelerationist​ AI Absolutist​ (“Cornucopian”)​; (2) Optimistic​ AI Realist (“Modernizer”)​; (3) ​Skeptical​ AI Realist (“Preservationist”)​; and (4) ​Decelerationist AI Absolutist​ (“Catastrophist”)​.​ There are very…