Against AI sensationalism


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From Elon Musk, to the godfather of AI, Geoffrey Hinton, to Rishi Sunak’s AI advisor, industry leaders and experts everywhere are warning about AI’s mortal threat to our existence as a species. But you’ll be hard-pressed to find this kind of analysis in the numerous articles sensationalising the existential threat of AI. Regulatory loopholesThe UK government’s AI regulation white paper was supposed to respond to the gaps in the current legal framework governing AI. First and foremost we must demand strong AI regulation, based on human rights and principles of anti-oppression. As the co-founders of the AI Institute Meredith Whittaker and Kate Crawford explore in this fantastic podcast episode, ‘a lot of these questions aren’t AI questions!