When it comes to the frontiers of Artificial Intelligence, I’m surely not your run-of-the-mill expert. I have some sense of models, agents, and bots. And I think I understand concerns that rogue AI agents can break free of their human instructions, or what the industry sometimes calls “misalignment.”
Yes, humans need to be able to keep control of the machines. Yet I also know something about election year ruses, including political hoaxes, such as we’ve seen in the past. Now that Democrats, led by Senator Bernie Sanders, want the government to completely stop the AI industry, including agents, data centers, and the whole nine yards. Well, this has the feel of the Democrats’ hysteria, make that existential hysteria, during the Biden years over climate change. Do you remember that?
It would have led to our complete economic ruination, were it not for President Trump’s re-election, and his revival of “drill, baby, drill,” which to a large extent has saved us from Iran and their friends in Communist China. Did I say China? Nobody in China is pulling back on AI. That’s part of the stupidity of the Bernie Sanders Democrats, and their apparent fellow travelers, at places like Anthropic and OpenAI.
If we just let free enterprise work its magic on this new technology, we will leave China and everybody else in the dust, as we create millions of new jobs at higher wages, leading to exponential prosperity, and even lower taxes. Plus, we will harness the technology, that is, if we stop government from running it. That’s the real Bernie Sanders agenda.
The White House technology advisor, David Sacks, in his recent tweet, has the story completely right. He’s basically saying if you want to slow down your models, fine, slow down your models.
Then, in a hard hitting statement, Mr. Sacks adds: “But stop pretending you need anyone else’s permission. Stop pretending antitrust law has to be suspended so you can form a cartel. Stop pretending you need a regulatory approval process that supersedes product liability.” He urges: “stop pretending METR,” the non-profit Model Evaluation and Threat Research, “is independent when it is intertwined with Anthropic’s investors and staff.”
Mr. Sack asserts: “most of all, stop pretending the motivation to slow down is purely altruistic. You face massive product-liability exposure if your products enable a truly damaging cyberattack… So go ahead and pace the frontier. You are the ones setting it.” In Mr. Sack’s appraisal, “the easiest way not to build superintelligence is for you to agree not to build it. Demanding your preferred regulatory framework as the price of that will look like blackmail of the public and the political system. So just do it.”
Then he concludes “If you do, you’ll buy goodwill for the next conversation. If you don’t, we’ll know this was just another bid for regulatory capture — or an election-season psy-op.” That psy-op part is very important. Anthropic and others are left-leaning companies. And when they talk about world government, it’s time for everyone to flinch. I’m not for world anything. And you can be sure China, Russia, North Korea, Iran, and plenty of other American enemies and adversaries, won’t abide by world anything.
And then there’s Mr. Trump correctly raising the issue of a hoax no different from Russia, Russia, Russia. He asks why anybody would want to stop the greatest economic development engine in history. And he is right to ask that. But then our friend the ace New York Post columnist, Miranda Devine, provides some important research that the people behind Bernie Sanders and Anthropic, are CIA veterans of the Russia, Russia, Russia hoax that tried to stop Mr. Trump.
And unsurprisingly, this crowd is also tied in with President Obama, Congressman Hakeem Jeffries, and Senator Chuck Schumer. All this AI armageddon, is indeed “election season psy-op.” And even Nvidia’s chief executive, Jensen Huang, has dismissed the AI fearmongering as “complete nonsense,” at a recent Goldman Sachs conference. You know what? Luddites are bad enough, but left-wing election-year luddites are even worse. Ignore them.
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