Technology

Yeah baby! Strip those regs! Who's ready for some more early 2000's level fraud induced corporate bankruptcies? We'll call it "Vibe Accounting", which is where some idiot who can barely add uses an LLM to spit out financial statements that have no basis in reality.

/s

Deregulation might give some amount of an edge, but I really don't think that in 2025, the major limitation on deployment of AI systems is overbearing regulation. Rather, it's lack of sufficient R&D work on the systems, and them needing further technical development.

I doubt that the government can do a whole lot to try to improve the rate of R&D. Maybe research grants, but I think that industry already has plenty of capital available in the US. Maybe work visas for people doing R&D work on AI.

Fuuuuck the beginnings of cutting red tape to accelerate AI? Wtf have the last 9 months of bulldozing been?

For example, in health care, there could be regulations that hinder the development of particular medical devices, Kratsios said.

Or you know, HIPPA and protected data. But why risk it, just slash that red tape!

Or in finance, there could be regs around algorithmic trading and consumer protection holding AI back.

Given that ~~crypto mining~~ "AI data center" the size of Manhattan that's being built, this doesn't sound sheisty as fuck.

Kratsios also applauded Senate Commerce Chair Ted Cruz’s recent introduction of legislation that would allow companies to test products in a less-strictly regulated AI “sandbox,” or testing zone.

Great, so rolling back safety regulations for new medical devices like neuralink?

I say this as someone that thinks neurotech is fucking awesome and has amazing potential. This is batshit levels of insanity considering how little anything has progressed from noninvasive tech to what is available now by letting a billionaire ignore regulations to put a chip in your brain.

I originally actually picked my major in college after becoming really interested in noninvasive neurotech that already achieved essentially the same things that invasive tech like Neuralink has achieved so far. There seems to be no real benefits to the invasive option, but way more risk.

Emotive's EEG tech allowed people to control a cursor with their brain over a decade ago. Wicab Brainport was a technology that was developed by a neuroscientist named Paul Bach y Rita way back in the 70s. It helped blind people to experience a form of vision, but even over several decades, it never really seemed to advance much beyond where it first began. It looks like Musk is going to be attempting something similar with the direction he's taking neuralink.

After Bach y Rita passed away, one of his students took over control of his company and the technology. Even though I ended up not going down the tech route, I still find it really interesting, and will forever think of his research as the first thing that inspired me to try and really buckle down and get a degree. I can't find any recent info about the company, but it looks like their physical office at least is permanently closed.

Just kind of feels like this is another one of those instances where we know the science/technology just isn't there yet, but these people are willing to potentially do a lot of damage and harm in order to be the ones to market a product and attach their names to the idea of the kind of scifi tech they always dreamed of having in their lifetime. Just another grift, but it's putting people's health and lives at risk, not just their money.