Authored by Kit Knightly via OffGuardian,
We're now several weeks into our new global fear narrative - "Rogue AI is going to kill us all".
The problem is stated, the reaction stage-managed, and we're heading for the "solution", which will inevitably be some kind of "regulation".
They have been diligently vague about what this "regulation" might entail, and that means only one of two things -
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either they don't really know yet and are keeping their options open,
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or they know it will be so unpopular they can't afford to say it out loud yet.
We might be due some hints - maybe even more than hints - with the United Nations General Assembly beginning yesterday, and a state meeting between China's Xi Jinping and Donald Trump later this week.
We can be fairly sure however that anything announced or posited this week will only be the beginning of what is very likely to be longer-term process. We've seen this already with regulation of social media and the internet in general. Multi-layered legislation forming a global patchwork of tyranny - that's the model, although, with the effort clearly put into this "scary AI" storyline, I would expect them to move somewhat faste
