Artificial Intelligence (AI) could teach a beginner to make a
biological weapon or even trigger a deadly pandemic – and that’s
what the companies who make chatbots say!
Right now, a bill to help prevent such nightmare scenarios
is on New York Governor Hochul’s desk, but a tiny bunch of tech
oligarchs is lobbying to stop her from signing it into law.
The Responsible AI Safety and Education (RAISE) Act passed the
New York State Legislature with overwhelming bipartisan support in
June. Polls show 84% of New Yorkers also support the bill’s goals.
Still, it’s not a done deal. Tech billionaires
could sink the bill if we don’t raise our voices to counter
their spin:
Ask Governor Hochul to sign the RAISE Act, because the
risks for us all are just too much to leave it up to Big Tech.
The RAISE Act would make new rules for AI titans like Elon
Musk's xAI, OpenAI, Google, and Meta – corporations training AI
software with eye-watering amounts of computing power. Instead of
making it up as they go, those “large developers” would be forced
to take more care about the catastrophic risks of AI, and would
face serious fines if they break the rules.
Just in the last month, Amazon’s Jeff Bezos and OpenAI’s Sam
Altman have admitted that there’s an AI investment bubble. As the
bubble threatens to burst, the pressure on AI companies to cut
corners, cover up mistakes, or ignore warnings is only going to
increase. We urgently need this law.
It’s not perfect, but no law is. The RAISE Act makes
meaningful progress on AI safety, and would continue to build a
state movement to properly govern AI in the absence of any US
federal legislation.
Ask the New York Governor to sign the RAISE Act into
law, to mitigate the risks of AI going rogue.
Big Tech’s lobbying bulldozer succeeded in California last year,
but people power built back and helped secure an AI Safety win
there just days ago. Let’s all lend a hand, and RAISE the
bar on AI regulation.
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