How to Avoid Dystopian Bias When Regulating AI

How to Avoid Dystopian Bias When Regulating AI

For a culture marinating in techno-dystopian media, the “precautionary principle” might sound terribly sensible when applied to artificial intelligence. Better to restrict development now than risk existential catastrophe from killer robots later, right? Maybe not. New economic research suggests this intuitive wisdom could prove disastrously wrong—and current regulatory proposals help prove the point. In the paper “Regulating the Direction of In…