Adding my name to the Future of Life Institute (FLI) open letter, and here’s why
2 min readMar 29, 2023
- I’ve been watching AI for over a decade, on the campuses of MIT and Harvard, at lecture halls, think tanks, incubators, accelerators, and convenings all over Seattle and New York and its corporate conferences in the halls of Microsoft, Google, and Amazon, in private conversations with my clients who are ramping up companies leveraging ChatGPT technologies. Until recent developments, researchers and practitioners have stated that the actual existential threat of AI is “not there yet” and that its technology is quite far away from any real impact on society. And yet, here we are. We need to pause the breaks to consider the deep implications of what we’re modeling and building and for whom.
- It is possible to have AI be a public good. Its implications on who we are, how we connect, and how we work are profound. Having worked for almost a decade in government and campaigns, historically known to move slower than our technologies and startups, there’s an urgent and inspiring opportunity for our elected officials to take the reins of leadership to answer the call of appropriate governance: “AI developers must work with policymakers to dramatically accelerate development of robust AI governance systems. These should at a minimum include: new and capable regulatory authorities dedicated to AI; oversight and tracking…
