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James_Miller comments on Link: Elon Musk wants gov't oversight for AI - Less Wrong Discussion

9 Post author: polymathwannabe 28 October 2014 02:15AM

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Comment author: James_Miller 28 October 2014 03:20:26AM 13 points [-]

Large tech companies would capture the oversight agency and use it to hinder their potential competitors.

Comment author: JenniferRM 28 October 2014 05:11:17AM 12 points [-]

You say that like it's a bad thing :-P

Comment author: Punoxysm 28 October 2014 07:02:10AM 6 points [-]

It's wildly premature. We wouldn't have wanted to apply today's commercial aircraft standards to the Wright Brothers.

Comment author: Larks 30 October 2014 03:00:20AM 4 points [-]

We might have wanted to apply today's anti-proliferation standards to early nuclear weapons (assuming this would have been possible).