Gary Marcus disputes AI czar David Sacks' warning, arguing private tech companies already censor and surveil the public
Lovely noted the contradiction in Sacks' anti-regulation warnings.
#153Gary Marcus@GARYMARCUS👇@davidSacks raises some interesting points here, which deserve an answer, but arguably gets the solution exactly backwards.
Are we not now already leaving unelected private companies precisely the ability to censor surveil and control citizens, and even sanctioning private companies for refusing to commit to using their systems in the service of government surveillance?
David Sacks@DavidSacksThe Pope rightly warns that AI must serve human dignity, not become a tool of domination or exclusion. But if we hand governments sweeping power over AI development in the name of safety, how do we prevent it from being used to censor, surveil, and control citizens — as Orwell foretold in 1984? This is the real alignment problem. “Quis custodiet ipsos custodes.” Who will guard the guardians? “Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” The oldest questions of human nature and authority don’t disappear in the AI age. They become newly relevant.