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Kasey Coff's avatar

"AI companies need 'moral voices that the incentives cannot bend'..."

The US government and politicians also need "moral voices that the incentives cannot bend."

I'm not holding my breath, for either scenario. 😕

Jack's avatar

Reading that bit about the Garden Grove, CA situation, I was reminded of the first episode of The Newsroom (We Just Decided to) which covered the evolving disaster of the Deepwater Horizon blowout in the Gulf of Mexico. Also following instances of questionable safety measures, also exposing an understaffed and underfunded inspection regime, the lesson of pay now or pay much more later seems to be one that governments simply won't learn.

John Gregory's avatar

yes, "inspecting by letter" was a new concept for me.

Irene Marshall's avatar

It strikes me that with Iran having all the cards, if they want to really mess with Turnip Head, they just need to say “Regime Change, or the Straight stays closed”.