With the rise of AI comes unknown security risks. Should regulation be focused on AI hardware or is it too soon to tell?
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Global Counsel in Travel and Hospitality7 months ago
Similar to product safety and security concerns around remote wireless accessibility and Bluetooth or radio frequency enabled devices (eg smart home enabled devices like automated shades or lighting), due regard should first be placed to existing applicable frameworks and standards/laws/regulations that may exist which could conceivably cover these risks and hazards. This avoids prematurely excessive and intrusive regulation, and creates efficiency in an area where innovation is very important, & doesn’t reinvent the wheelDirector of Data in Software7 months ago
At this point, I would say its a little too soon to tell. We don't have dedicated AI "hardware" at the moment - the AI software runs on the same processors, storage, memory that every other software program runs on. There's some marketing around "Neural chips" or AI chips, particularly in smartphones, but there's not enough actual differentiation for that hardware that would warrant additional regulation. I also want to address your first statement -- with the rise of AI comes unknown security risks. AI brings novel approaches to the same risks we've dealt with for decades. Outside of being scary and the 'new thing', AI hasn't brought many brand-new risks that we weren't expecting. Instead, AI exacerbates existing risks by increase the scale of the impact of the risks we know about - whether through being able to easily create new malware or creating convincing phishing content at scale, customized to an organization.
The threats and risks are the same. There are just more of them, coming faster than before. That's the risk that AI brings.
Director of Legal7 months ago
I'm not sure regulation is the answer. It just sounds good and comfortable to quote regulation as an answer. I'm not sure what the answer is, but it's something that stuck with me from reading the book on AI, The Coming Wave.