“AI #71: Farewell to Chevron” by Zvi

Chevron deference is no more. How will this impact AI regulation?

The obvious answer is it is now much harder for us to ‘muddle through via existing laws and regulations until we learn more,’ because the court narrowed our affordances to do that. And similarly, if and when Congress does pass bills regulating AI, they are going to need to ‘lock in’ more decisions and grant more explicit authority, to avoid court challenges. The argument against state regulations is similarly weaker now.

Similar logic also applies outside of AI. I am overall happy about overturning Chevron and I believe it was the right decision, but ‘Congress decides to step up and do its job now’ is not in the cards. We should be very careful what we have wished for, and perhaps a bit burdened by what has been.

The AI world continues to otherwise be [...]

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Outline:

(01:06) Language Models Offer Mundane Utility

(02:22) Language Models Don’t Offer Mundane Utility

(04:43) Man in the Arena

(07:56) Fun with Image Generation

(08:48) Deepfaketown and Botpocalypse Soon

(11:17) They Took Our Jobs

(12:04) The Art of the Jailbreak

(16:47) Get Involved

(17:34) Introducing

(19:26) In Other AI News

(19:50) Quiet Speculations

(26:03) The Quest for Sane Regulations

(27:19) Chevron Overturned

(45:11) The Week in Audio

(52:49) Oh Anthropic

(53:59) Open Weights Are Unsafe and Nothing Can Fix This

(55:16) Rhetorical Innovation

(55:39) Aligning a Smarter Than Human Intelligence is Difficult

(01:00:51) People Are Worried About AI Killing Everyone

(01:06:16) Other People Are Not As Worried About AI Killing Everyone

(01:08:57) The Lighter Side

The original text contained 12 images which were described by AI.

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First published:
July 4th, 2024

Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/AYJcL6GD3FLkL4yNC/ai-71-farewell-to-chevron

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