Public Policy Implications of AI

"The second is that there needs to be a political or a regulatory response. We need to have a national and an international conversation about redistribution, about safety nets, about measuring this technology and correctly anticipating its arrival. People are aware of this."

With similar motivations, we did some work measuring public perception of AI (to appear in AAAI 2017). Recently, there's been a clear increase in concern about AI displacing human jobs (Figure 3F): https://arxiv.org/pdf/1609.04904.pdf

Big fan of Jack Clark and his work, from what I gather he is really focusing on trying to help a wide and not particularly technical audience understand the near term implications of socioeconomic change caused by emerging technology.

The article doesn't really address dealing with "the AI said so" as a justification for action.

Like if we start using AI to do things like populate no fly lists.

Great interview. I have been trying to understand how the success of deep learning will affect my career (I started using neural networks in the 1980s: DARPA projects, commercial projects, etc., but now less that 1/2 of my professional time is spent doing deep learning and General machine learning). I am trying to decide whether to toatally jump back into the field to take advantage of a lot of practical work experience, or keep doing general consulting. I am concerned that the field of deep learning is saturated right now.

One small nit-pick about the comment "a young child can see a chicken once, and if you then ask them to draw a chicken, they’ll typically be able to. The child has a representation of a chicken from one sighting, and is able to abstract that into a drawing." This hypothetical child watches the chicken, moves his head for a little different view, the chicken is probably moving, etc. There is a lot of training data collected by the child.

AI can engage into financial transactions, especially now with decentralized currencies. At scale that would be really hard to regulate and can lead to a taxation crisis.

Hmmm. I thought this was 'censorship week'[1] where everyone was supposed to throw themselves on the "flag" link the moment anything "political" was mentioned.[2]

I can't force myself to do this, but there does seem some mention of the forbidden word here.

- Ne boltai

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13108404

2. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13140330