Zach Schermele
speaker
202 appearances
3 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2025
last heard 4d ago
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When it comes to legislation that is more concerned with advanced artificial intelligence and superintelligence, there has been, I think, more of a bipartisan consensus around the possibility of requiring that AI companies have independent monitors that go in, not
Just similarly to like nuclear weapons, uh, to assess what the status of their development is.
There's some legislation that I think could see some real progress over the course of the next few months, primarily in the lame duck around that.
And then there is some legislation around something called an AI kill switch, which is really just.
A colloquialism for requiring these AI companies to build into their models, essentially exactly what that metaphor uh describes, which is an ability for them to completely unplug, turn off, kill the model if it starts to go rogue and if it if it starts to.
to infect other portions of the internet, take over systems that it's not supposed to, which we have seen evidence of models doing on their own in in very concerning incidents over the course of this summer.
It is influencing how lawmakers, particularly Republicans, are talking about this issue in a very notable way.
They have consistently decided and said over the course of the past couple of days, when this AI panic, for lack of a better term, has kind of gripped a lot of lawmakers on both sides of the aisle.
And you know, predating this debate, that it would it would be bad for American companies, American-based companies to develop some of these really advanced uh technologies, but it would be worse if China were to do them.
And, you know, I don't know the extent to which that resonates with Americans who are very concerned about.
about where AI is going and advanced intelligence and and superintelligence is going.
But what we know from the polling is that uh a majority of Americans, according to several recent surveys, are very concerned about AI and advanced AI.
Um
potentially wiping out the human race, right?
And uh they're concerned, according to other polls, that AI um is gonna sever human bonds going forward, right?
So so there is really a grassroots concern that is reflected among the majority of lawmakers, I think.
They they heard from their constituents over the course of the August recess, over the course of those couple of of weeks out
outside of Washington about AI and and data centers.
There is a lot of angst uh within the American public right now.
And I think that when lawmakers go home to campaign uh over uh October, they could be hearing a lot more about this.
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