Oren Etzioni Ai Quotes

Oren Etzioni32, then CEO of the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence, said: Are you worried at all that when you slow things down, while you’re going through that deliberative process, with the best of motivations, that people are dying in cars and people are dying in hospitals, that people are not getting legal representation in the right way? I think one reason for urgency is commercial incentives, but another reason for urgency is an ethical one. While we in Seattle comfortably debate these fine points of the law and these fine points of fairness, people are dying, people are being deported. So yeah, I’m in a rush, because I want to make the world a better place. But in the years since Etzioni made those remarks, we haven’t seen miraculous improvements in highway safety, health outcomes, or the treatment of migrants. Instead, we’ve been subjected to accelerating usage of AI as a pretext to surveil, arrest, and deport people; accelerating environmental impact of data centers to run the AI systems; and hundreds of car crashes, including at least seventeen fatal ones, as innocent bystanders are subjected to informal beta tests of Tesla’s misleadingly advertised “Full Self-Driving” technology.33 If we want innovation that is aimed at something other than profit maximization, we need to shape that innovation via regulation.