AI promises to make that seem like swatting mosquitoes when a self-driving semitruck is about to hit you. Is that the right approach? Trump has his followers whipped up about immigrants and trade taking their jobs. Some leaders from Silicon Valley are proposing that the government institute a guaranteed basic income-a safety net for everyone. "Who is responsible when a self-driven car crashes or an intelligent medical device fails?" Or "How can AI applications be prevented from unlawful discrimination?"ĪI threatens to automate away vast numbers of jobs. Stanford University just put out a study, "Artificial Intelligence and Life in 2030," raising several important ethical questions. We need to start thinking through AI policy now, before the technology gets away from us. So what are some of the hard issues chugging toward us? No wonder 145 tech leaders signed a letter declaring that "Trump would be a disaster for innovation." This is the guy who said he'll fight terrorist recruiting by shutting down "parts of the internet," the way you might close a road by putting up some orange cones. In other words, Trump doesn't have anything to say about the old, wonky tech issues, much less the coming issues that are going to grip the next president. It was a challenge to write because, as the report says, "the most distinguishing feature of the Trump campaign agenda in this area has been its notable lack of articulated policy positions." The Information Technology and Innovation Foundation just published a nonpartisan report comparing Clinton's and Trump's positions on just about every tech topic. Trump has not released any sort of tech policy. No doubt the GOP nominee would think the term autonomous vehicle means a limo with a driver. She comes off like a favorite aunt who sticks to her flip phone and buys music on CDs.Īnd Clinton makes Trump look like a tech Neanderthal. A disturbing part of the latest FBI report on her email troubles is the details about her complete lack of tech savvy. It's not just the platform that's missing the future-it seems to be Clinton herself. Clinton's views are as unexciting as a matzo ball. Neither does emoji, in case you were wondering. The words drone or genomics don't appear at all. The document twice mentions machine learning-a subset of AI-in passing, without context. All are important topics, and they could've been on Barack Obama's to-do list in 2008 or Al Gore's in 2000.Īstoundingly, the document does not contain the term artificial intelligence-even though AI will likely turn out to have a bigger impact than any technology since the transistor. Clinton published her comprehensive tech plan this summer, titled "Initiative on Technology & Innovation." It plods through a lot of familiar policy-wonk stuff: net neutrality, internet governance, cybersecurity, online privacy, improving the patent system. This November, we're going to elect a president who is promising to solve 20th-century problems but can't see potential 21st-century solutions-or nightmares. And our two major-party presidential candidates don't have a clue. Over the next four-year presidential term, a swarm of fantastic new technologies, such as artificial intelligence, virtual reality, blockchain, personal genomics and drones, will profoundly alter society, business and geopolitics in ways we've never seen.
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