Beware Calls for AI Regultion

Late last May, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee on the ascendant technology of generative AI. The putative motivation for Altman’s attendance at the Senate hearing was to allay congressmen’s concerns emanating from a combination of ignorance and Matrix-Terminator-Robocop dystopian fiction. The actual motivation was a combination of protectionist concerns for the technology’s negative distributional for domestic labor markets, the dissemination of misinformation...