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White House tech chief slams EU AI Act, champions Trump's approach as Davos begins (www.nbcnews.com)
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Going into this week’s World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, the White House’s top science and technology adviser, Michael Kratsios, signaled some chilly conversations with European leaders may lie ahead on the topic of artificial intelligence and the way it is regulated.

“I will continue to point out to my tech minister counterparts the ways they can create a regulatory environment to allow AI to thrive,” Kratsios told NBC News, “to make sure they’re not getting ahead of themselves with overburdening regulations, like the EU AI Act, which are an absolute disaster.” For Kratsios, the Trump administration’s light-touch approach to AI regulation is the winning formula.

"There’s been an A-B test for decades on how you lead in technology, and it’s very obvious what the recipe is,” said Kratsios, director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and one of the nation’s leading artificial intelligence advisers.

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[–] melfie@lemy.lol 9 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

From a quick reading of the actual law, here are some of the AI uses it prohibits that will apparently “stifle innovation”:

…use of an AI system that exploits any of the vulnerabilities of a natural person or a specific group of persons due to their age, disability or a specific social or economic situation

…to assess or predict the risk of a natural person committing a criminal offence, based solely on the profiling of a natural person or on assessing their personality traits and characteristics

…the use of an AI system that deploys subliminal techniques beyond a person’s consciousness or purposefully manipulative or deceptive techniques

…the use of AI systems that create or expand facial recognition databases through the untargeted scraping of facial images from the internet or CCTV footage

…the use of biometric categorisation systems that categorise individually natural persons based on their biometric data to deduce or infer their race, political opinions, trade union membership, religious or philosophical beliefs, sex life or sexual orientation

[–] ILikeTraaaains@lemmy.world 3 points 3 hours ago

Me at a congress about technology and medicine.

Presentation about future of AI in medicine.

The speaker that current Europea blocks progress

The laws? GDPR, medical data protection, and privacy.

In that congress there were two sides on AI in healthcare, one making emphasis on improving care and outcomes and huge emphasis on privacy and security, and the other envisioned a Medical Minority Report/Big Brother-like future where there is zero human connection with the patient.

[–] AcidiclyBasicGlitch@sh.itjust.works 6 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

Yeah it's pretty much a guarantee that when you hear an oligarch saying regulations cause stagnation or stifle innovation, they're referring to protections that are meant to keep people from being exploited.

They will then claim that U.S. values are "baked in" to their bullshit and that's why you don't need regulations... These are also the people that are destroying the U.S. and have openly stated they are trying to destroy democracy

For example, Kratsios, the man who argues against regulations for technology, was tasked with using cutting edge technology to prevent COVID from spreading as well as for keeping COVID misinformation from being shared on social media.

We know that he failed to do both.

Best case scenario, he has never known what the fuck he was doing, millions died under his watch, and this is a very clear example of why nobody should be listening to him.

Worst case scenario, his team of tech bros who were supposed to be keeping disinformation from spreading, either created (or intentionally allowed it to be spread) the online misinformation that plagued the U.S. regarding masks, because he felt the lives at risk were less important than the facial recognition data he was collecting, and the Clearview big government contracts he was attempting to sell to multiple agencies on behalf of Peter Thiel.

Best case or worst case scenario, the bottom line is that nobody should be listening to these people! They're either incompetent morons or competent villains, or most likely a little bit of both. They are very dangerous, and they should not hold any government authority. The death rattle of democracy in the U.S. should be a warning to other countries about the danger of allowing private businesses to gradually infiltrate and eventually consume the government.

The entire purpose of a government even existing is to protect society from men exactly like this.