Sen. Schumer (D-NY) has announced an ambitious plan to produce a bipartisan AI regulation program in a matter of months. Jordan Schneider admires the project; I'm more skeptical. The rest of our commentators, Chessie Lockhart and Michael Ellis, also weigh in on AI issues. Chessie lays out the case against panicking over existential AI threats, this week canvassed in the MIT Technology Review. I suggest that anyone complaining that the EU or China is getting ahead of the US in AI regulation (lookin' at you, Sen Warner!) doesn't quite understand the race we're running. Jordan explains the difficulty the US faces in trying to keep China from surprising us in AI.
Michael catches us up on Canada's ill-advised effort to force Google and Meta to pay Canadian media whenever a user links to a Canadian story. Meta has already said it would rather ban such links. The end result could be that even more Canadian news gets filtered through American media, hardly a popular outcome north of the border.
Speaking of ill-advised regulatory initiatives, Michael and I comment on Australia's threatening Twitter with a fine for allowing too much hate speech on the platform post-Elon.
