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FiveThirtyEight Politics

How Much AI Regulation Is The Right Amount?

FiveThirtyEight Politics

ABC News

Politics, News

4.620.5K Ratings

🗓️ 13 June 2024

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Last month, a bipartisan group of senators unveiled a roadmap for artificial intelligence policy, proposing $32 billion in funding to support AI research. The plan has raised numerous questions about whether and how the government intends to regulate the rapidly evolving tech industry, especially in areas related to copyright and privacy. In this installment of the 538 Politics podcast, Galen speaks with Gregory Allen, Director of the Wadhwani Center for AI and Advanced Technologies, about the politics of AI regulation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Just because something bad hasn't happened yet doesn't mean something couldn't happen, right?

0:35.2

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0:41.2

that means we'll always be safe, right?

0:43.2

You'd be an idiot. Hello and welcome to the 538 politics podcast I'm Galen Druke.

0:57.0

We're all familiar with the scene at this point.

0:59.8

Congress hauls in tech industry bigwigs to question them on the harms of social media or

1:05.2

virtues of net neutrality or even First Amendment rights and national security, only

1:11.1

to make headlines themselves for their own limited understanding of modern technology.

1:17.0

Lawmakers have often taken heat for being behind the curve when it comes to grappling with big tech.

1:23.0

Now enter artificial intelligence.

1:26.0

Last month, a bipartisan group of senators released a roadmap for AI policy

1:30.0

after spending nearly a year convening industry leaders, academics, and members of civil society.

1:37.0

The top lines from the report include a call for $32 billion in annual spending to support research in AI.

1:44.4

It also recommends legislation preventing the use of deepfakes and election campaigns and

1:49.0

passing a federal data privacy law, among other things.

1:52.8

Notably, the group did not recommend one large AI bill,

1:56.8

instead leaving the legislation to be worked on piecemeal

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