Better late than never, though I worry we're too late now that powerful open source models can run on any computer. This week I granted Claude access to my desktop messenger app (Beeper) through local MCP and asked it to analyze a couple of conversational threads going back months. The level of analysis was frightening.
Anyway, all that said, I like your practical approach and it's very aligned with the work of Ravi Iyer and colleagues:
Thanks for sharing those links, appreciate it, and agree the thinking is very aligned with the post.
I also agree that there will be ways to get around any regulation, at least from a consumer perspective, such as just interacting with overseas companies (not subject to domestic regulations). But most people in the country just use mainstream apps and services, and so I think effective regulation would get the 80/20 accomplished for sure, it not more like 99/1.
Additionally, personally I'm even more concerned with government misuse. I think corporate misuse is really bad of course and I've spent most of my career fighting that, mainly by helping to develop alternatives. I say that only to reinforce how much I'm concerned about government misuse, and I'm not seeing a way to prevent that without regulation of some kind, especially to your point that the technology is usable outside the big tech stack.
Better late than never, though I worry we're too late now that powerful open source models can run on any computer. This week I granted Claude access to my desktop messenger app (Beeper) through local MCP and asked it to analyze a couple of conversational threads going back months. The level of analysis was frightening.
Anyway, all that said, I like your practical approach and it's very aligned with the work of Ravi Iyer and colleagues:
https://psychoftech.substack.com/p/regulate-value-aligned-design-not
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5179894
Thanks for sharing those links, appreciate it, and agree the thinking is very aligned with the post.
I also agree that there will be ways to get around any regulation, at least from a consumer perspective, such as just interacting with overseas companies (not subject to domestic regulations). But most people in the country just use mainstream apps and services, and so I think effective regulation would get the 80/20 accomplished for sure, it not more like 99/1.
Additionally, personally I'm even more concerned with government misuse. I think corporate misuse is really bad of course and I've spent most of my career fighting that, mainly by helping to develop alternatives. I say that only to reinforce how much I'm concerned about government misuse, and I'm not seeing a way to prevent that without regulation of some kind, especially to your point that the technology is usable outside the big tech stack.
Bonjour merci pour cette information très intéressante surtout à l’heure que nous vivons
Je suis tout à fait d’accord avec vous
Bien à vous
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