These same tensions are playing out on the Hill. “Coming from a place of fear-mongering about future AI harms can distract from the many things that we can do in the here and now to tackle the ways that AI is affecting the lives of people around us today,” says Sarah Myers West, managing director of the AI Now Institute, which has not been part of conversations with Schumer’s office so far.
Myers West says she has been disappointed to see how much emphasis that effort appears to be placing on interventions like AI audits, which place the onus on what will inevitably be under-resourced third parties to police the technologies of multibillion-dollar tech giants. “That’s a fairly weak foundation from which to build from,” Myers West says.
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“We have lots of evidence where regulatory friction has been introduced and has been quite effective,” Myers West says, pointing to local bans on facial-recognition technology.
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