This is one subject that must have bipartisan input and support. The conversation should include a topic that most are avoiding, and that is Universal Basic Income. Why? We are about to lose between 30-50% of our jobs to automation which is a natural relative to AI, in my opinion. Keep on keeping on, Senator!
I can tell you Big Tech doesn't have our interests in mind, at all, obviously. Empowering excellent researchers like Melanie Mitchell, while simultaneously getting individuals like her to get the PR game that is being played with her area of expertise, is a real and necessary key to systemic reform. You want these researchers on your side, and you want them, as a whole, to get the politics while they're doing awesome geek work. Good faith geeks are awesome. I've been harmed by Facebook, the company. It's about the individuals involved in the tech, their personal issues as well as their personal power, and not the inherently granular geekiness of the tech itself. I hope you can make this new tech right, through reasonable, common sense, federal regulation and laws, so it can't do to harm anyone in the future. Thanks.
“‘Every sentence is incorrect,’ tweeted one industry researcher.” That tweet was mine. I apologize very much for the tone of the tweet—it was absolutely not meant to shame you or anyone else. I wish I had phrased it better.
I am not an industry researcher. I work for a non-profit scientific research institute. I work at the intersection of cognitive science and AI. My work is in part on evaluating AI systems and thinking about fair and useful ways to measure their "intelligence". I also write about AI for the general public, and try to portray its abilities realistically. I have been really alarmed by the narratives that portray AI systems as "smarter" than humans and as having their own agency. This was what I was reacting to in your tweet. It's true that Google CEO Sundar Pichai said something similar to your tweet on 60 Minutes, and his claims were quickly and definitively refuted by AI scientists.
I'm not at all someone who "develops, sells, and captures the lion’s share of benefit from emerging technologies". I do none of these things. My work is on the science of AI, on understanding its capabilities and limitations. I agree with you on many of the issues you bring up about the future of AI, and I emphatically agree with you on the need for regulation. Indeed I have spoken to others in the House, Senate and the White House in strong support of government regulation of AI.
I hope you will accept my apology for my harsh-sounding tweet, and engage with me and other folks who, I hope you understand, are not bullies, not part of any "technology class", not trying to shame people, but just trying to honestly study and educate the public on what AI really is, what it can do, what it can't do, and what its likely harms and benefits are.
For what it's worth, I also want to thank you for your essential work on gun control, the loneliness crisis, and many other central issues of our time.
This is one subject that must have bipartisan input and support. The conversation should include a topic that most are avoiding, and that is Universal Basic Income. Why? We are about to lose between 30-50% of our jobs to automation which is a natural relative to AI, in my opinion. Keep on keeping on, Senator!
I can tell you Big Tech doesn't have our interests in mind, at all, obviously. Empowering excellent researchers like Melanie Mitchell, while simultaneously getting individuals like her to get the PR game that is being played with her area of expertise, is a real and necessary key to systemic reform. You want these researchers on your side, and you want them, as a whole, to get the politics while they're doing awesome geek work. Good faith geeks are awesome. I've been harmed by Facebook, the company. It's about the individuals involved in the tech, their personal issues as well as their personal power, and not the inherently granular geekiness of the tech itself. I hope you can make this new tech right, through reasonable, common sense, federal regulation and laws, so it can't do to harm anyone in the future. Thanks.
Dear Senator Murphy,
“‘Every sentence is incorrect,’ tweeted one industry researcher.” That tweet was mine. I apologize very much for the tone of the tweet—it was absolutely not meant to shame you or anyone else. I wish I had phrased it better.
I am not an industry researcher. I work for a non-profit scientific research institute. I work at the intersection of cognitive science and AI. My work is in part on evaluating AI systems and thinking about fair and useful ways to measure their "intelligence". I also write about AI for the general public, and try to portray its abilities realistically. I have been really alarmed by the narratives that portray AI systems as "smarter" than humans and as having their own agency. This was what I was reacting to in your tweet. It's true that Google CEO Sundar Pichai said something similar to your tweet on 60 Minutes, and his claims were quickly and definitively refuted by AI scientists.
I'm not at all someone who "develops, sells, and captures the lion’s share of benefit from emerging technologies". I do none of these things. My work is on the science of AI, on understanding its capabilities and limitations. I agree with you on many of the issues you bring up about the future of AI, and I emphatically agree with you on the need for regulation. Indeed I have spoken to others in the House, Senate and the White House in strong support of government regulation of AI.
I hope you will accept my apology for my harsh-sounding tweet, and engage with me and other folks who, I hope you understand, are not bullies, not part of any "technology class", not trying to shame people, but just trying to honestly study and educate the public on what AI really is, what it can do, what it can't do, and what its likely harms and benefits are.
For what it's worth, I also want to thank you for your essential work on gun control, the loneliness crisis, and many other central issues of our time.
Sincerely,
Melanie Mitchell