“The problem with pushing people to be afraid of #AGI while calling for intervention is that it enables firms like #OpenAI to position themselves as the #responsible tech shepherds – the #benevolent experts here to save us from hypothetical harms, as long as they retain the #power, #money and #market #dominance to do so. Notably, OpenAI’s position on AI governance focuses not on current AI but on some arbitrary point in the future. They welcome regulation, as long as it doesn’t get in the way of anything they’re currently doing.” — Samantha Floreani

#AI / #AGI / #SamanthaFloreani / #DigitalRightsWatch <https://theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/may/31/yes-you-should-be-worried-about-ai-but-matrix-analogies-hide-a-more-insidious-threat>