Rishi Sunak’s vanity jamboree on AI safety lays bare the UK’s Brexit dilemmas | Rafael Behr
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/nov/01/rishi-sunaks-ai-safety-britains-brexit-dilemmas-elon-musk
At a table where democratic accountability should dominate, a diminished nation is trading in Silicon Valley celebrity
Who is the more trustworthy custodian of machines capable of diverting the course of human civilisation: Elon Musk or the Chinese Communist party? Will it be the billionaire megalomaniac tycoon who meddles in international crises as if they were video games loaded on to his personal propaganda console? Or the authoritarian superpower that likes digital technology best when it enables more efficient and ruthless social engineering and political repression?
Rishi Sunak’s vanity jamboree on AI safety lays bare the UK’s Brexit dilemmas | Rafael Behr
Nov 1, 2023, 9:13am UTC
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/nov/01/rishi-sunaks-ai-safety-britains-brexit-dilemmas-elon-musk
> At a table where democratic accountability should dominate, a diminished nation is trading in Silicon Valley celebrity
> Who is the more trustworthy custodian of machines capable of diverting the course of human civilisation: Elon Musk or the Chinese Communist party? Will it be the billionaire megalomaniac tycoon who meddles in international crises as if they were video games loaded on to his personal propaganda console? Or the authoritarian superpower that likes digital technology best when it enables more efficient and ruthless social engineering and political repression?