🏛️ An FDA for AI — model deployment gets licensed at the compute layer

“So I did write a blog post sort of asking for this AI regulation. And I do think the model of the FDA is probably the best one, where in certain use cases, I do think that you can create a sandbox where these things can be tested and I think can be evaluated.”

“This is how we're going to end up with a Federal Software Commission, just like we have an FCC to run big communications and we have an FDA to run big pharma. We're going to end up with a Federal Software Commission to run software, big software.”

“I'm just really of the point of view, as you guys know, that the market needs to be allowed to develop... the more our government actors step in and try and tell us what systems and methods we are allowed to use to build stuff, the more at risk we are falling behind.”

“What we're talking about today is whether we create some new licensure regime in Washington so that politically connected insiders get to control and shape the software industry. That's a disaster.”

“I think actually I split the difference here a little bit. I don't think it needs to be an agency and licensing. I do think we have to have a commission, and we do need to have people being thoughtful about those thousand use cases, Chamath, because they are going to cause societal harm or things that we cannot anticipate.”

“And so if that's the trend, then it becomes very hard for a regulatory agency to go in and audit every server or every computer or every computer on the network and say, what model are you running? Is that an approved model? Is that not an approved model? It's almost like having a regulatory agency that has to go in and audit and assess whether a Linux upgrade or some sort of open source platform that's being run on some server is appropriately vetted and checked. And so it's almost like a fool's errand.”

“Sam went a little further than I sketched out a few months ago, which is that he also said that it may make sense for us to issue licenses for these models to even be compiled and for these models to actually do the learning.”

“We're going to end up in a situation in which the big tech companies have inordinate influence over this new regulatory agency.”

“And so there's like a whole monitoring framework. There's a know your customer kind of framework. These are not unfettered things that can just live openly in the wild.”

“So I think that the self-regulation for areas that impact everybody, independent of whether you participate in the system or not, is where you have to look for good examples, Jason. And I'm not sure there are many good examples of self-regulation, those kinds of systems.”

“which is my whole concern about if we jump the gun on regulating AI too quickly, it'll turn into another, you know, woke game that everyone's going to play.”

“What I'm saying is it's way too early. We don't even know what we're regulating. We don't know what the standard would be. And what we will do by racing to create a new FDA is destroying American innovation in the sector. And other countries will not slow down. They will beat us to the punch here.”

“I think now is the time for self-regulation, so that we avoid the massive heavy hand of government having to come in here.”

“In this case, all the bare metal providers, all the people that provide GPUs, will be forced by the government, in my opinion, to implement something.”

“If the US does try to regulate or does try to put the brakes on the development of tools where the US can have a great economic benefit and a great economic interest, there will be advances made elsewhere without a doubt. Those markets and those places will benefit in an extraordinarily outpaced way.”