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Faine Greenwood
@faineg.com

Imagine if instead of regulating drone risks the normal way (which we did), we instead paid weird bloggers lots of money to worry about superintelligent dogs sprouting thumbs and using drones to kill us. This is pretty much how the US is approaching AI risks and regulations. My latest:

little-flying-robots.ghost.ioWhy We Can't Let Enormous Weirdos Regulate AIImagine if instead of regulating drones via the standard lengthy, boring, and bureaucratic process - which we did - we instead decided, in the name of fostering all-important American drone innovation...
Alfred Twu
@alfredtwu.com

The Bay Area does have a number of regular organizations that work on practical AI regulations, such as how to prevent housing or employment discrimination. It'd be great if they got more of a spotlight and funding.

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Alfred Twu
@alfredtwu.com

On another note I think one reason this whole thing has flown under the radar for so long is that they appear to have stayed out of local politics here in the East Bay.

Alfred Twu
@alfredtwu.com

This is not unique to them though, there's a larger issue of media being national/global now leading to more voters who are really into national or international politics but don't know who their school board members are.