CHICAGO–There would be less need for “guardrail” regulations that enrich lawyers and aggravate state-federal disputes if artificial intelligence developers “steered” large language models into being “intrinsically good,” according to 2024 physics Nobel Prize laureate Geoffrey Hinton.
“You can model good behavior,” he said during a July 28 presentation at the National Conference of State Legislatures’ (NCSL) 51st Annual Summit. “It’s the same with a child.”
AI products, such as chatbots, “ought to be trained as agents that exhibit good behavior,” he said.
California’s 2024 House Bill 1047 was a first attempt with “tiny little teeth” to tentatively require such a standard, he said, but Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed it. …
Regulations Should ‘Steer’ AI Agents Into Being ‘Intrinsically Good,’ Says ‘Godfather of AI’
