Cosmos Institute founder Brendan McCord says AI governance is too important to be left solely to politicians

@Brendan_McCord And too important for them to be behind. Time to close the pacing problem.

@BWarburg Many in the Cosmos community!!

We will write a post about it soon

@Brendan_McCord It sounded to me like a plea for an unregulated sector. There's a breadth of difference though between commanding a sector of the economy and regulating it, and something so powerful cannot be left in the hands of a few unaccountable CEOs either.

@BWarburg Paleolithic emotions Medieval institutions God like technology

FWIW I do have faith in new institutions. But I think they will mostly arise from the private sector

@Brendan_McCord Exactly the inverse; the common good is sovereign over any private corporation, and the people alone have the final right to regulate commerce by means of their elected representatives through duly established laws. A bit like saying nukes can't be left to politicians.

@Brendan_McCord Which new forms give you faith?

Its a riff on Clemenceau’s “war is too important to be left to the generals.”nothing that consequential should sit in custody of a single class

1. Rule of law and politicians are different things

2. “the people” shouldn’t be equated with “their representatives.” Self-govt runs through more channels than the ballot (science, markets, the press, civil society, etc)

The precedent for placing politicians in custody of a general-purpose thinking technology is the printing press - the Licensing Acts. Led to censorship + cartel

@Brendan_McCord Thank you for your clarifying reply, though. I was reading it in the tone of certain silicon valley voices who seem to think the future of this technology should be their sole and only prerogative.