The public debate around artificial intelligence has become increasingly heated. Sometimes it seems to be playing out in two    11    realities. In one, AI is regarded as a remarkable but potentially dangerous step forward in human affairs,    12    new and careful forms of governance. This is the view of more than a thousand eminent individuals from academia, politics, and the tech industry who used an open letter to call for a six-month pause on the training of certain AI systems.      On the same day as the open letter was issued, but in a parallel universe, the UK government decided that the country’s principal aim should be to    13    innovation. The white paper on AI governance had little to say about    14    existential risk, but lots to say about economic growth. It proposed the lightest of regulatory touches and warned against “unnecessary burdens that could stifle innovation.” In short: you can’t spell “laissez-faire” without “AI.”      Despite the divergence between these perspectives, one way of thinking about AI ought to be acceptable to both sidesː we should all by now recognize that the challenges brought about by AI are political in nature. Systems that participate in or moderate the free-speech ecosystem will inevitably    15    on the nature of our democracy. Algorithms that determine access to housing, credit, insurance, or jobs will have real implications for social justice. The    16    practice of AI technologies will either enlarge or diminish our liberty. Democracy, justice, liberty. When we talk about new technologies, we are often talking about politics, whether we realize it or not. The digital is political.      We will need a new approach: new laws, new public bodies and institutions, new rights and duties, and new codes of conduct for the tech industry. It will take time to find out if our public discourse can rise to the level of sophistication needed
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