Guidance on protecting and supporting workers in an era of rising AI capabilities

Administration Unveils "Critical next Step"

Hello Everyone,

Today, the Biden-Harris Administration released guidance on protecting and supporting workers in an era of rising AI capabilities. Microsoft has committed to adopting these principles in its workplace.

“Ethically Developing AI: AI systems should be designed, developed, and trained in a way that protects workers. Establishing AI Governance and Human Oversight: Organizations should have clear governance systems, procedures, human oversight, and evaluation processes for AI systems for use in the workplace.”

Meanwhile Microsoft is pulling Microsoft Research Asia (MSRA) workers out of China. Even as Microsoft has invested in East Asia this year for future datacenters and to train an AI workforce there (presumably because its cheaper!), Sources told the WSJ that relocation has been offered to about 700 to 800 China-based employees working in machine learning and other work related to cloud computing.

Coincidentally it’s MSRA that helped China become such a powerhouse in AI research and talent. With the bottleneck in the west of Microsoft and OpenAI taking all the spoils and revenue so far in Generative AI, it gives Chinese startups and talent a huge window of opportunity to innovate with less real competitors.

Meanwhile BigTech lobbyists have nearly totally infiltrated the Whitehouse and the POTUS. It reminds me of the analogy of foxes guarding the hen-house. The Government teaming up with BigTech in AI regulation isn’t going to allow the bottom 50% to trust AI much in America. Of course don’t tell the Microsoft Executives, who seem clueless in their profit-centric way of seeing the world.

The Biden administration and Congress must adopt a worker-centered approach in its response to the development and use of artificial intelligence. But will it matter considering all the hype and pyramid schemes involved in Enterprise adoption of AI? ChatGPT Enterprise comes to mind. Meanwhile as smarter companies ban ChatGPT altogether.