Licensing is neither feasible nor effective for addressing AI risks
Any laws should be legislating the downstream effects of AI, not the models themselves. Otherwise we will quickly get to a place where we have a handful of government-sanctioned and white-washed “safe” models responsible for deleterious effects on society, with plausible deniability for the companies abusing them.<p>Legislating around the model is missing the point.<p>There is no evidence that a runaway artificial intelligence is even possible. The focus on this is going to distract us from the real and current issues with strong AI. The real risks are societal instability due to:<p>- Rapid disruption of the labor market<p>- Astroturfing, psyops, and disruption of general trust (commercially and maliciously, both domestic and foreign)<p>- Crippling of our domestic ai capabilities, leading to cutting edge development moving overseas, and a loss of our ability to influence further development.<p>- Increased concentration of power and disruption of decentralized and democratic forms of organization due to all of the above.