Rep. Ted Lieu is speaking my language.
“As one of just three members of Congress with a computer science degree, I am enthralled by [artificial intelligence] and excited about the incredible ways it will continue to advance society,” the California Democrat wrote Monday in an op-ed for The New York Times. “And as a member of Congress, I am freaked out by A.I., specifically A.I. that is left unchecked and unregulated.”
Frequent ReidOut Blog readers will know by now that I share the sentiment.
Check out this blog post I wrote late last year on the bias being built into artificial intelligence tools, the activists working to prevent that, and why these issues are likely to soon take center stage. And this post from last week about tech companies and the quickly approaching robot revolution.
Lieu’s article does a great job of conveying the justifiable terror in seeing our world being rapidly influenced by robots built to make fast — and sometimes, immensely consequential…
Read the full article here
