a16z VC Martin Casado explains why so many AI regulations are so wrong
Attempts to regulate AI to date have focused on some mythical future instead of understanding what new risks AI actually introduces, argues VC Martin Casado.
The problem with most attempts at regulating AI so far is that lawmakers are focusing on some mythical future AI experience, instead of truly understanding the new risks AI actually introduces.
So argued Andreessen Horowitz general partner VC Martin Casado to a standing-room crowd at TechCrunch Disrupt 2024 last week. Casado, who leads a16z’s $1.25 billion infrastructure practice, has invested in such AI startups as World Labs, Cursor, Ideogram, and Braintrust.
“Transformative technologies and regulation has been this ongoing discourse for decades, right? So the thing with all the AI discourse is it seems to have kind of come out of nowhere,” he told the crowd. “They’re kind of trying to conjure net-new regulations without drawing from those lessons.”
For instance, he said, “Have you actually seen the definitions for AI in these policies? Like, we can’t even define it.”
Casado was among a sea of Silicon Valley voices who rejoiced when California Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed the state’s attempted AI governance law, SB 1047. The law wanted to put a so-called kill switch into super-large AI models — aka something that would turn them off. Those who opposed the bill said that it was so poorly worded that instead of saving us from an imaginary future AI monster, it would have simply confused and stymied
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i always had that thought with regards to the policies.
Its some what similar with what's going on with crypto (XRP and SEC case) luckily Trump would change that.