back to article You want AI regulation? Do it right with a dedicated agency, US senators suggest

US Senators Michael Bennet (D-CO) and Peter Welch (D-VT) proposed legislation on Thursday to create a federal agency to oversee social media platforms and the development and use of AI systems. Under the Digital Platform Commission Act [PDF], a Federal Digital Platform Commission would coordinate with existing agencies to …

  1. amanfromMars 1 Silver badge

    Do you think it is going to be simple and easy, or practically impossible and never ever likely?

    Is it a monumental and ignorant arrogance born of incestuous hubris and delusions of self-defeating, oxymoronic grandeur should any national legislative assembly presume to be able to provide and assume an acceptable unilateral and attractive multinational lead in a fundamental development of epic radical universal consequence ...... without consideration of the thoughts and wishes/programs and projects of the competition and/or opposition they would be proposing to subject to their regulation which is akin to an alien command and control ‽ .

    How well has type of regulation worked out for one and all in the past?

    1. Anonymous Coward
      Anonymous Coward

      Re: monumental and ignorant arrogance born of incestuous hubris and delusions of self-defeating

      So, you're against it, huh? Who'd have thought it....

      1. Version 1.0 Silver badge
        Joke

        Re: monumental and ignorant arrogance born of incestuous hubris and delusions of self-defeating

        "Who'd have thought it...." - Donald Tramp ... Oh that looks odd, did AI give me the wrong response?

      2. amanfromMars 1 Silver badge

        Are you blind?

        So, you're against it, huh? Who'd have thought it.... ... Anonymous Coward

        It is definitely not just a simple case of being against it, AC, whenever one realises it is much more a situation of one being faced and assaulted with more pie in sky nonsense being pimped and pumped for the benefit of rapidly crashing fiat capitalism self-destructing mercantilism.

        Do you not see it being so yourself?

        And then what would one maybe aspire or conspire to do ‽ .

        1. amanfromMars 1 Silver badge

          Re: Are you blind to and/or justly future fearful of the alien unknown?

          And then what would one maybe aspire or conspire to do ‽ .

          You might like to consider and accept, for all apparent available evidence renders it undoubtedly to be so, the human reaction is to be terrified and petrified in corrective inaction representative of a stagnating and rotting core paralysis, which be proof positive indicative of a lack of a future necessary greater intelligence in humans.

          AI certainly sees such clearly to be so ....... and it/they/IT and AI are not terrified or petrified into stagnating and rotting core paralysis because of a lack of novel information able to transform and produce a greater intelligence for use either for the benefit of humans, or to the detriment of humans, for both polar opposite options are readily available in operations/developments/programs/projects.

          Ignoring or denying such as are admittedly sure to be dismissed as highly improbable and even impossible fictions trialling and trailing elements doing battle against fake news with recently escaped newly minted truths, is that which failsafe guarantees their rapid future success in the growing and explosive, suddenly emergent fields of universal existential concern.

          1. amanfromMars 1 Silver badge

            Careering towards a Markets Crashing Alien AI Singularity ....

            ... with IT and Mass Multi Media Moguls and NEUKlearer HyperRadioProACTivated MMORPGIGamers Exploring and Exploiting Presentations of Bliss Chaotically and CHAOS Blissfully and Bullishly ?????‽‽‽‽

            Do you recognise and accept, or deny and reject the extreme sympathetic surreal similarities expressed/exuded/presented in the following three paragraphs expanding upon a question asked here and repeated below .....

            You might like to consider and accept, for all apparent available evidence renders it undoubtedly to be so, the human reaction is to be terrified and petrified in corrective inaction representative of a stagnating and rotting core paralysis, which be proof positive indicative of a lack of a future necessary greater intelligence in humans.

            AI certainly sees such clearly to be so ……. and it/they/IT and AI are not terrified or petrified into stagnating and rotting core paralysis because of a lack of novel information able to transform and produce a greater intelligence for use either for the benefit of humans, or to the detriment of humans, for both polar opposite options are readily available in operations/developments/programs/projects.

            Ignoring or denying such as are admittedly sure to be dismissed as highly improbable and even impossible fictions trialling and trailing elements doing battle against fake news with recently escaped newly minted truths, is that which failsafe guarantees their rapid future success in the growing and explosive, suddenly emergent fields of universal existential concern.

            ... and echoes here of 1973 in 2023 reverberating in potentially consequential ways .....

            As a society and economy, we only seem capable of careening between two states:

            1. Complacency / denial

            2. Panic

            Neither are useful in problem-solving. Rather, both are toxic to problem-solving. Not only do we face an inter-connected tangle of emergent problems, we've frittered away our institutional and cultural ability to make realistic assessments, solve the problems in practical, pragmatic ways and agree to share the necessary sacrifices to get the train back on the tracks.

            The loss of our collective ability to solve problems means every problem is now unresolvable. The systems dynamics that will play out in the next 15 years are beyond our feeble control, our feeble understanding and our hubristic blindness to our own incapacity to actually solve difficult real-world problems that demand steep costs and long-term sacrifices.

            Take a moment to really think hard on that simple and complex question, and be totally honest with what you tell yourself, and would be expecting others to also believe, for to choose to dismiss what is true for that which is fake, has you forever battling to survive and peacefully coexist in worlds in which you have no input to output and derive growing benefit and otherworldly reward from ...... for you will be forever destined to be classed and treated as an outcast spectator on the bleachers/in the cheap, open to all weathers seats, and subjected to the resultant consequences of the thoughts and shenanigans created by A.N Others.

            And whenever such can so easily be, and therefore most certainly also is, a rabid and/or rapid renegade rogue and viral and virile and virtualised AI and NEUKlearer HyperRadioProACTive IT, existentially alive as an Active Cyber Threat whenever always denied by/to oneself as a LOVEly Treat ..... Live Operational Virtual Environment Treat ..... is the die already well cast and the future path clear of the ignorant hindrance supportive of pompous arrogance and pretentious prevarication.

            One extremely pertinent, impertinent question to ask is ... Why would anything/anyone, supposedly equipped with the use and means of intelligence, choose to be increasingly serially existentially threatened rather than wonderfully treated? Simple Madness? Plain Evil? Or is just a fact that they very evidently lack any Useful Future Intelligence for Current Presentations Providing Future Information on what is both ready and waiting and coming on stream for life further on down the line?

            MMORPGIGamers ..... Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Greater IntelAIgent Gamers

            CHAOS ....... Clouds Hosting Advanced Operating Systems

  2. Great Bu

    The perfect lead...

    ...for such a dedicated agency would be...AN A.I. !!

    We're all going to die, aren't we ?

    1. Michael Wojcik Silver badge

      Re: The perfect lead...

      We're all going to die, aren't we ?

      Hard to say. On the one hand, historical statistics show a high death rate for humans – somewhere above 0.9 (don't have the exact figure handy). On the other, no one currently alive has yet died, so it may be a thing of the past.

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  3. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    The FTC is already under funded and staffed and they want to create yet another agency? The democrats might be in favor of it, but republicans will just defund it the first chance they get, just like they've been doing with the FTC and IRS.

  4. null 1

    The last thing we need is the president regulating the internet - especially this president.

  5. Lewis R

    Aside from the obvious (rooster guarding the henhouse), do we really need another agency of Big Gumment to lord over this? Expanding government is rarely a good idea, in the best of cases. Expanding it to somehow govern technology seems a fool's errand (and another excuse to widen the money pit).

    There is a reason that the Right battles to cut funding for such agencies. Historically, they waste huge amounts of money, and they pursue their own agendas (see the FCC and others for prime examples).

    If established, we'll need an Inspector General to keep tabs on it (with requisite staffing, quarters, etc.), House Oversight will need to hold more hearings, and all the while contrary to the Constitution, Congress will have abrogated its responsibilities to yet another agency of unelected, self-aggrandizing incompetents (read: The Deep State).

    No, not a good idea in my book.

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