I previously was addressing Michael’s more limited point, “I don’t think government competence is what’s holding us back from having good AI regulations, it’s government willingness.”
All that said, separately, I think that “increasing government competence” is often a good bet, as it just comes with a long list of benefits.
But if one believes that AI will happen soon, and that a major bottleneck is “getting the broad public to trust the US government more, with the purpose of then encouraging AI reform”, that seems like a dubious strategy.
I mainly agree.
I previously was addressing Michael’s more limited point, “I don’t think government competence is what’s holding us back from having good AI regulations, it’s government willingness.”
All that said, separately, I think that “increasing government competence” is often a good bet, as it just comes with a long list of benefits.
But if one believes that AI will happen soon, and that a major bottleneck is “getting the broad public to trust the US government more, with the purpose of then encouraging AI reform”, that seems like a dubious strategy.