In The Spotlight
The sensational media stories following the release of Open AI’s GPT-4 continue, but the theme that it's about to—or already has—plunged the world into the "Singularity" is being quietly undercut by efforts in the EU and the US to regulate AI in general.
By John Ghrist
Many popular and business media outlets have recently gone overboard in predicting the end of civilization at the hands of this useful but humble chatbot. While it’s fun to scare ourselves with spooky stories from time to time, this deluge is starting to give AI in general an undeserved bad rep. A useful antidote is to look at the slew of laws and regulations—some already on the books, some merely pending—that can assure the sober-minded that responsible people are aware of the dangers and are acting to do something about it.