Is the EU AI Act coming too slow?

Question

Currently I organise a seminar about AI and Democracy. In the organisation team there is a philosophy student linked to AI Alignment research.As the seminar happens in Germany and focused on Europe we talk about the coming AI Act. We said the interesting remark giving the current trajectory the AI Act is coming too slow as we might see a General AI soon. I like to discuss this remark with the community and ask: Is the EU AI Act coming too slow?

smoldesu · Accepted Answer

I don't know. We don't know what their legislation looks like, and we don't have consensus on what dangerous AI looks like. There aren't any good regulation frameworks for controlling it either, so it could be that treading carefully is the best option. The industry hype is dying down to more reasonable levels than it was a few months ago, which should help temper expectations on either side. Effective AI regulation will require intersectional cooperation, and setting that up (nevermind governing it fairly) takes time.

duringmath · Answer

They're coming in way too fast if anything.These regulations are largely an overreaction to non existent problems. I guess the EU is pivoting from bleeding out innovation slowly over time to nipping it in the bud.

i2cmaster · Answer

Yeah. It won't matter. Self hosting powerful models has become trivially easy. Training them is quickly becoming similarly easy.You're just about in a situation where stopping widespread use of AI requires confiscation/monitoring of everyone's personal computers. It won't be enforceable.

Is the EU AI Act coming too slow?

They're coming in way too fast if anything.
These regulations are largely an overreaction to non existent problems. I guess the EU is pivoting from bleeding out innovation slowly over time to nipping it in the bud.

Yeah. It won't matter. Self hosting powerful models has become trivially easy. Training them is quickly becoming similarly easy.
You're just about in a situation where stopping widespread use of AI requires confiscation/monitoring of everyone's personal computers. It won't be enforceable.