Perspective: While the call to slow down AI is a welcome shift from an industry infamous for “moving fast and breaking things,” not everyone agrees that a moratorium is a step in the right direction.
that a moratorium is a step in the right direction. Some have argued that by slowing down, individual companies — or the United States as a country — could lose out in a geopolitical race to develop AI tools.
But the discussion of an AI race misses a key aspect of technology policy. Indeed, it overlooks the essential question at stake in the debate: whose vision of the public interest and social good will be taken up?As the future of artificial intelligence is being hotly debated, it’s helpful to look back to the 1970s, when microbiologists temporarily delayed creating artificial organisms in their labs to discuss the possible safety risks.
Over the course of three and a half days in February 1975, around 150 scientists, invited journalists and a handful of lawyers met at the Asilomar Conference Center in California. They gathered to contemplate the prospects and potential hazards of engineering microbial life. Scientists were on the precipice of devising new techniques for splicing together strands of DNA with the potential to create hybrid organisms with genetic compositions combined from animals and viruses, plants and bacteria.
Indeed, a small cadre of molecular biologists had voted to go public with their concerns in a 1973 letter to Science magazine calling for a review of certain strands of genetic research. In response, the National Academy of Sciences assembled a panel of scientists who called for a.
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