Today, the Department of Commerce’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) launched a Request for Comment on the risks, benefits and potential policy related to advanced artificial intelligence (AI) models with widely available model weights – the core component of AI syst...
This would be a good opportunity to provide a thoughtful, sane, and coherent response to voice your opinion on the future regulation policies for AI to counter the fearmongering.
All electronic public comments on this action, identified by Regulations.gov docket number NTIA–2023–0009, may be submitted through the Federal e-Rulemaking Portal. The docket established for this request for comment can be found at www.Regulations.gov, NTIA–2023–0009. To make a submission, click the ‘‘Comment Now!’’ icon, complete the required fields, and enter or attach your comments. Additional instructions can be found in the “Instructions” section below, after “Supplementary Information.”
The benefits and risks of making model weights widely available compared to the benefits and risks associated with closed models;
Innovation, competition, safety, security, trustworthiness, equity, and national security concerns with making AI model weights more or less open; and The role of the U.S. government in guiding, supporting, or restricting the availability of AI model weights
It seems like they’re concerned about both open and closed models, and they’re interested in supporting as well as potentially regulating both.
Lol, no they aren't. That's just legalese. A government regulator agency isn't going to open feedback about what it should be doing regulatory wise and promt the entire thing with "Why should we close AI to only corporations willing to post enough money". They have to at least include the "but maybe potentially let average people use AI" part so when they close everything down they can point back and say "look, we were open to talking about open solutions".
All electronic public comments on this action, identified by Regulations.gov docket number NTIA–2023–0009, may be submitted through the Federal e-Rulemaking Portal. The docket established for this request for comment can be found at www.Regulations.gov, NTIA–2023–0009. To make a submission, click the ‘‘Comment Now!’’ icon, complete the required fields, and enter or attach your comments. Additional instructions can be found in the “Instructions” section below, after “Supplementary Information.”
Am American, am not particularly tech savvy. Can anyone recommend a reliable resource to read more about this? Are there any nonprofit or foss groups that are likely to have a published position on how AI should be regulated?