From The New York Times:
...Many observers have described this as a Sputnik moment. That's incorrect: America can't re-establish its dominance over the most advanced A.I., because the technology, the data and the expertise that created it are already distributed all around the world. The best way this country can position itself for the new age is to prepare for its impact.
If the inevitable proliferation of A.I. endangers our cybersecurity, for example, instead of just regulating exports, it's time to harden our networked infrastructure — which will also protect it against the ever-present threat of hacking, by random agents or hostile governments. And instead of fantasizing about how some future rogue A.I. could attack us, it's time to start thinking clearly about how corporations and governments could use the A.I. that's available right now to entrench their dominance, erode our rights, worsen inequality. As the technology continues to expand, who will be left behind? What rights will be threatened? Which institutions will need to be rebuilt and how? And what can we do so that this powerful technology with so much potential for good can benefit the public?
It is time, too, to admit that the interests of a few large, multinational companies aren't good proxies for the interests of the people facing such a monumental transformation.
Whatever else DeepSeek may have done to get us here, perhaps forcing that realization is something we can be grateful for.
Zeynep Tufekci
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/opinion/ai-deepseek-trump-biden.html?smid=em-share
...Many observers have described this as a Sputnik moment. That's incorrect: America can't re-establish its dominance over the most advanced A.I., because the technology, the data and the expertise that created it are already distributed all around the world. The best way this country can position itself for the new age is to prepare for its impact.
If the inevitable proliferation of A.I. endangers our cybersecurity, for example, instead of just regulating exports, it's time to harden our networked infrastructure — which will also protect it against the ever-present threat of hacking, by random agents or hostile governments. And instead of fantasizing about how some future rogue A.I. could attack us, it's time to start thinking clearly about how corporations and governments could use the A.I. that's available right now to entrench their dominance, erode our rights, worsen inequality. As the technology continues to expand, who will be left behind? What rights will be threatened? Which institutions will need to be rebuilt and how? And what can we do so that this powerful technology with so much potential for good can benefit the public?
It is time, too, to admit that the interests of a few large, multinational companies aren't good proxies for the interests of the people facing such a monumental transformation.
Whatever else DeepSeek may have done to get us here, perhaps forcing that realization is something we can be grateful for.
Zeynep Tufekci
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/opinion/ai-deepseek-trump-biden.html?smid=em-share
AI has so much potential. It has potential to harm and, I think, the potential to protect us from harm. Recently, Amazon and other companies have been accused of faux colluding by using AI to artificially push up prices based on when their competitors prices go up. If the online competition's price rises, their company's price rises. While these AI were not directly consulting each other, this was still leading to price inflation like regular collusion. Certainly if this sort of AI collusion were to happen in the medical field, it would inflate the price of medicines and/or services.
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