Joe Biden Has a Secret Weapon Against Killer AI. It's Bureaucrats

From President Joe Biden comes an oversized Executive Order on the Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence..

And UK prime minister Rishi Sunak threw a party with a cool extinction-of-the-human-race theme, wrapped up with a 28-country agreement (counting the EU as a single country) promising international cooperation to develop AI responsibly..

(The people serving on boards and committees consisting only of government people will have to wait until later to take jobs in the DC offices of AI powers.) The mother of all AI working groups will be the White House AI Council, including over 30 bureaucratic bigwigs, from the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff to the Director of the Gender Policy Council..

To perform some of the highly technical tasks requestedlike vetting frontier LLMs even more powerful than the current mindblowing chatbotswill require A-level programmers familiar with red-teaming, eliminating bias from datasets, and, as the order puts it, the mechanics of machines physically located in a single datacenter, transitively connecting by data center networking over 100 Gbit/s, and having a theoretical maximum computing capacity of 1020 integer or floating-point operations per second for training AI..

The Biden order also instructs every big agency to designate a Chief Artificial Intelligence officer within 60 daysa requirement handed down by a White House that for three years has failed to fill its vacancy for a Chief Technology Officer...

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