Google comes out against a ‘Department of A.I.’
The free market think tank R Street Institute’s response to the NTIA bolsters Google’s arguments against establishing a one-size-fits-all “Department of A.I.” First, the R Street Institute observes that the NTIA and other would-be regulators “tend to stress worst-case scenarios” with respect to the deployment of new A.I. tools. The result of this framing is that A.I. innovations are being “essentially treated as ‘guilty until proven innocent’ and required to go through a convoluted and costly certification process before being allowed on the market.”
Like Google, the R Street Institute notes that the development of A.I. technologies “will boost our living standards, improve our health, extend our lives, expand transportation options, avoid accidents, improve community safety, enhance educational opportunities, help us access superior financial services and much more.” Imposing some kind of pre-market licensing scheme administered by a Department of A.I. would significantly delay and even deny Americans access to the substantial benefits that A.I. systems and technologies offer.
