The majority agree that AI if allowed to run amok would be a very dangerous thing. Without controls it has the potential of inflicting great harm on human society, possibly even leading to its ultimate destruction, no one is in favour of that. Warnings of the dangers have come from many quarters, surprisingly not the least from prominent AI business leaders themselves, who have repeatedly warned about the severe dangers and existential risks of artificial intelligence.

What's to be done? There are two schools of thought, one that mandatory guardrails be put in place by government to ensure that society is kept safe from the dangers, and important functions of society are kept within human control and oversight. The alternative is to allow the industry to mandate its own voluntary code of self regulation. Do we really want 20 or so mega rich businessmen (they're all men) controlling human destiny? Me thinks not, I'm firmly of the belief that AI is so important that it requires mandatory controls imposed by governments.

which government?

Hi Trumpster,

Artificial Intelligence is a god send to people such as yourself who lack any kind of human intelligence. I thought the answer to your question; which government? would be self evident, in my case it would be the Australian government, and for YOU the Trump regime, heaven help YOU. The fool in the Trump House (been renamed) is only interested in stoking the profits of his mega rich "friends" in big business, and with a little presidential commission on the side for himself and his cronies, nothing for YOU sycophantic lemmings!

As for the question, AI is to important a development to simply be allowed to be controlled by a handful of mega rich oligarchs, whose only motives are power and profit.

Here is an example of a question put to AI by me. Is mhaze a Trumpster?

Answer; YES, mhaze the Harlem rapper is a Trump supporter. That's YOU!

“I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office … A professional politician is a professionally dishonorable man. In order to get anywhere near high office he has to make so many compromises and submit to so many humiliations that he becomes indistinguishable from a streetwalker”. (H.L Mencken, 1880-1956)

Mencken also wrote, “with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary, the whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary”.

Latest examples of scare mongering: climate change, Covid and AI.

And, the population lines up to be scared witless, too stupid to know that they are being lured into more government control and eventual totalitarianism.

These “guard rails” (more silly buzz words that will be spluttered until something else comes along) are just about more controls by the communistic Albanese government.

"Artificial Intelligence is a god send to people such as yourself who lack any kind of human intelligence."

Yes, I hear it can even multiply 300 x 5. Which according to $15TrillionPaul is too hard for mere mortals.

" I thought the answer to your question; which government? would be self evident,"

Yes I knew you'd think that. Most people who don't understand how all this works think that.

The fact is that the Australian Government cannot erect so-called guardrails for Australia. Well they can pass legislation that the clueless will think will work, but they won't work just as their social media bans haven't worked.

The AI phenomena is a world-wide 'industry'. It exists outside of jurisdictions and outside the control of government. Perhaps if the US and Chinese governments worked together they'd stand a chance of reigning AI in, but they've both put the kybosh on that.

Even Albo seems to recognise that, which is why he's talking about pie-in-the-sky notions such as world-wide government efforts to control AI.

The funny part of this is that the same people who fell for every other fabricated scare over the past 60 years are falling for it all over again. What'smore they have the same failed solutions - more government.

They'll never learn and the scare-mongers are grateful for that.

Everything about the Hard Left Albanese indicates that he wants government (his) control over everything. The latest is Artificial Intelligence.

People who still actually read (books) might be interested in “Comrade Prime Minister: 40 Year Alliance with Australian Communism”, by Trevor Loudon, the blurb of which states, a “deep dive” into Albanese's “communist affiliations”, previously hidden (time of publication 2024) with the tiny but “extremely influential” Australian revolutionary movement.

“Albanese has been propelled to prominence by influential Australians whose true allegiance belongs to Moscow, Beijing, and Havana, not Australia”.

The Left commentators describe Loudon as a ‘far right conspiracy theorist’. Of course they do. That’s always their response to the truth.