What’s your favorite movie featuring ai?
Posted: Wed May 28, 2025 4:33 am
Her (the 2013 story of a man who falls in love with his ai virtual assistant). The idea of a conversational language interface was incredibly prophetic. It’s unfair to dunk on old sci-fi movies for all the parts they got wrong. It’s amazing the amount they get right, like the interface in her. But it would be great for hollywood to have some new tropes [of ai gone rogue].
What’s your message to lawmakers and what’s been your biggest surprise dealing with them?
Our leaders are taking this issue [of ai safety, security, privacy and equality] extremely seriously. They understand the need to balance the potential upsides with the potential downsides. But nuance is required here, and i did not go in with particularly high hopes of that nuance being held appropriately. I don’t know how it’s going to play out but people seem very genuine in caring, wanting to do something and get it right. Our role is to explain ai to them as best we can, realizing we don’t have all the answers and we might be wrong.
What’s one goal you have for these discussions with lawmakers?
Get a framework in place to help us deal with short term challenges america phone number list and long term ones. Even if it’s imperfect, starting with something now would be great. Solving this legislatively is quite difficult given the rate of change. Even if it’s just focused on insight and not oversight, the government can build up the muscle. A new agency [overseeing ai] would be appropriate.
What will generative ai regulations mean for your business?
A regulatory response to ai has started to coalesce around the world. Here’s what you need to know, and do.
Read the blog
what part of this are they getting wrong?
You show people exponential capability and they believe it, but they don’t believe that it will keep going up exponentially. They believe it will level off. It’s a very difficult bias to overcome, when you accept it you have to accept radical change in all parts of life.
What’s your message to lawmakers and what’s been your biggest surprise dealing with them?
Our leaders are taking this issue [of ai safety, security, privacy and equality] extremely seriously. They understand the need to balance the potential upsides with the potential downsides. But nuance is required here, and i did not go in with particularly high hopes of that nuance being held appropriately. I don’t know how it’s going to play out but people seem very genuine in caring, wanting to do something and get it right. Our role is to explain ai to them as best we can, realizing we don’t have all the answers and we might be wrong.
What’s one goal you have for these discussions with lawmakers?
Get a framework in place to help us deal with short term challenges america phone number list and long term ones. Even if it’s imperfect, starting with something now would be great. Solving this legislatively is quite difficult given the rate of change. Even if it’s just focused on insight and not oversight, the government can build up the muscle. A new agency [overseeing ai] would be appropriate.
What will generative ai regulations mean for your business?
A regulatory response to ai has started to coalesce around the world. Here’s what you need to know, and do.
Read the blog
what part of this are they getting wrong?
You show people exponential capability and they believe it, but they don’t believe that it will keep going up exponentially. They believe it will level off. It’s a very difficult bias to overcome, when you accept it you have to accept radical change in all parts of life.