{"id":7990,"date":"2026-10-02T00:50:46","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T00:50:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/silvybrand.com\/?p=7990"},"modified":"2026-10-02T00:50:46","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T00:50:46","slug":"whatever-ai-safety-looks-like-its-not-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/silvybrand.com\/?p=7990","title":{"rendered":"Whatever AI Safety Is, It\u2019s Not This"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Here\u2019s a fun history lesson for you. Don\u2019t worry, we\u2019ll make it quick! In 1966, nearly 51,000 people <a data-offer-url=\"https:\/\/www.bts.gov\/archive\/publications\/passenger_travel_2016\/tables\/half\" class=\"external-link text link\" data-event-click=\"{&quot;element&quot;:&quot;ExternalLink&quot;,&quot;outgoingURL&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/www.bts.gov\/archive\/publications\/passenger_travel_2016\/tables\/half&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bts.gov\/archive\/publications\/passenger_travel_2016\/tables\/half\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">died<\/a> on US highways. The overwhelming evidence suggested that many lives could have been saved with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/2012\/07\/july-10-1962-swedes-set-to-belt-us-all-safely\/\" class=\"text link\">modern seat belts<\/a>, which by then had been around for several years. The automotive industry responded by rallying together, and, in a triumph of self-regulation, voluntarily put the safety feature in every new vehicle that rolled off the line.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">Kidding! Of course they didn\u2019t do that. In the fall of 1966, Congress established the Department of Transportation and then passed the National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act as well as the Highway Safety Act, giving the federal government sweeping new authority to set safety standards. By 1968, seat belts were required in every new car. Despite a massive increase in highway traffic in the last 60 years, far fewer fatalities happen on the road today.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">I was thinking about this while watching various AI CEOs huddle around US president Donald Trump on Tuesday, congratulating themselves and each other on having signed an AI safety accord. My colleague Maddy Varner wrote about the specific stipulations <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/trumps-ai-safety-accord-is-a-fancy-pinky-swear\/\" class=\"text link\">here<\/a>, but the short version is that it\u2019s largely up to the AI labs to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/nvidias-answer-to-rogue-agents-is-an-open-source-ai-security-system\/\" class=\"text link\">keep themselves in check<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">Or, as Trump put it even more succinctly in the Oval Office on Wednesday: \u201cThey\u2019re gonna police, and they\u2019re gonna police each other, and they\u2019re gonna self-police, they\u2019re gonna police themselves. It\u2019s going to work out very well.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">So this is the current state of AI safety regulation. On one side are the AI executives, employees, and tech luminaries, who are all saying that there need to be clear, thoughtful, tactical rules introduced to avoid potential disaster. (Bill Gates, for instance, has been on a media blitz playing Cassandra about an AI apocalypse.) On the other side is Trump\u2019s magical thinking that if you say something enough times, it must be true.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">That\u2019s not to say any of this is simple or easy. The question of how to properly \u201cpace the frontier,\u201d as some of those same executives like to say, remains open. Even if all of the major AI labs were to agree to a slowdown, there\u2019s no good way to keep them to their word, and China would likely continue on its own path regardless. The US economy is increasingly propped up on the AI industry, which itself has become an ouroboros of financing deals and circular investments; any meaningful crackdown risks major instability that reaches well beyond Silicon Valley.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">The automotive industry is also admittedly an imperfect analogy for all kinds of reasons. There\u2019s no seat belt equivalent for AI, no straightforward solution that can demonstrably reduce risk overnight. (It also took decades for the majority of states to pass laws mandating that people actually wear them.) The potential harms are less certain and less quantifiable. AI doomers will tell you the technology could result in human extinction in a decade; skeptics argue that\u2019s sci-fi marketing malarkey.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/whatever-ai-safety-looks-like-its-not-this\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u2019s a fun history lesson for you. Don\u2019t worry, we\u2019ll make it quick! In 1966, nearly 51,000 people died on US highways. The overwhelming evidence suggested that many lives could have been saved with modern seat belts, which by then had been around for several years. 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