Sarah Kreps
In 1950, mathematician Alan Turing wrote a paper that investigated the possibility of machines making decisions like humans. He led with a question—“can machines think?”—and proceeded to unpack the meaning of both “machine” and “think.” He gave an example of a request that a human would pose to a machine: “Q: Please write me a sonnet on the subject of the Forth Bridge.” And he imagined the machine’s deferring: “A: Count me out on this one. I never could write poetry.”
In 2022, OpenAI released a tool that could write an elegant sonnet—or 100 different sonnets—on the Forth Bridge. Public uptake was swift. ChatGPT became the fastest app to reach 100 million users, even beating TikTok in its ascent.
Criticisms of the pace of congressional action on artificial intelligence (AI) regulation were also swift. Brookings Institution fellow Darrell West said that Congress was “way behind on AI regulation.” Others chimed in and observed that “the fact remains that Congress has yet to pass any legislation on AI, allowing the U.S. to cede the initiative on this issue to the European Union (EU), which recently agreed on the AI Act, the world’s most comprehensive AI legislation.”
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