The government doesn't mandate that AI be created. The driving force of innovation hasn't been the government for years. This is all on the Tech Industry (and the de-regulation of it, so on that you're correct.)
But big Tech could have EASILY not gone the AI route. But in the pursuit of profit over everything, they are looking to cut corners and automate as much as possible. At this point almost no content moderation on social media is done by humans. That's a problem. Buzzfeed is making AI articles that's a problem. AI is going to start developing games etc. The government didn't come from on high and tell devs to make Chat GPT or Open AI.
And the problem is, the growth of it is exponential. The more people use it, the more sophisticated it gets, the more it knows about us and our desires. You think the algorithm is bad now...just wait until it doesn't need to wait on humans to create the content.
Yeah, one thing I've learned that with non-stop enabling, people want to experiment with how far they can take it. That's almost in any field and we're seeing it in tech.
I think this is where lawmakers need to step in as well, but everyone we could have elected to do something about this and who has said they'll account for things like this are people nobody voted for.
Like i mentioned in my initial post: time after time we ignored the implications of A.I. People have been talking about A.I replacing humans for about a decade now and nobody listened. Now it's here and because we have no policies, we are officially behind. As you mentioned, tech increases are exponential so we really shot ourselves right in the foot.
It goes back to that concept of people not caring unless they're facing immediate danger. Many smokers don't care about cigarettes causing lung cancer if the next cigarette won't kill them.
Like someone else said, this is the new smartphone, but I think it'll be even more lucrative because we incrementally got to the smartphone.
A.I and what it can do basically
dropped on us (although it was really incrementally engineered) and people are now going in every which way with it taking over and sweeping industries. As a software engineer myself I and many other people saw what folks were building at work and on their personal projects, but nobody really listened to our warnings.
I mean Boston Dynamics robots were nearly 10 years ago and people were saying "wait until self-automated A.I gets put into these things". Terminator, Skynet, etc. talk was seen as comedy more than anything. However, now it's a reality.
Now we got to see in which directions people are going to take it because there are no laws there to stop it nor stop the CEO's, tyc00ns and moguls from replacing people with it. This is equally on the engineers as it is on people supporting it or not doing anything about it.
