With the legislative and judiciary branches in place, the executive branch under the White House occupant doesn't necessarily have the final say. American Democracy is designed to let consensus or compromise be worked out. That's how the issue of regulating Artificial Intelligence is going to get resolved.
At the end of the day, American politicians would look at poll numbers and favor the best vote-getting option. So far, where AI is concerned, the majority of American voters have been on the side of private entrepreneurship which is a long-standing hallmark of the United States.In view of the above, I believe that, however regulated, there will be enough room for AI innovations. This was exactly the Reaganite approach to algorithm-based technologies in the 1980s, which worked out pretty well, politically and economically. By virtue of OpenAI (ChatGPT), America has recently taken the world by surprise as much as by storm, again. As usual, control freaks who command autocracies can't wait to harness OpenAI that might undermine their absolute power. But innovative OpenAI, once harnessed by absolute power, won't be organically forward-moving anymore---for lack of free market competition. That's why, under the veneer of their "new tech," autocracies are just playing catch-up, even though they may be "superior" in quantity. When will control freaks ever learn? Ask ChatGPT in the PRC, if you can.Author: renqiulan
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