Tristan Harris, the ex-Googler who has been calling out Big Tech for a variety of societal harms caused by social media, is now sounding the alarm over artificial intelligence.
In an interview with NBC Nightly News' Lester Holt that airs tonight, the Center for Humane Technology co-founder says regulation is urgently needed., which NBC shared first with Axios. "And this has moved so much faster than our government has been able to understand or appreciate."specifically cover how companies or governments use artificial intelligence, though the European Union has begun drafting a wide-ranging AI Act.
"Responsibility always gets bulldozed by market incentives, by your stock price, by needing to beat somebody else," Raskin says in the NBC interview. Even many of the companies involved in the technology have called for regulation, and other warnings have come from rank-and-file workers. "The people inside the companies know that this is moving at a reckless pace, which is why they've kind of channeled their concerns to us," Harris said.
Not regulating AI will be one of the biggest mistakes made in the last decades.