Director for Science and Society, speaks during an announcement January 16, 2021 at the Queen theater in Wilmington, Delaware. President-elect Joe Biden has announced key members of his incoming White House science team. Sometimes in our frenzied discussion about active AI, the idea of capable regulation and policy governance tends to get lost in the mix.
One of the most fascinating parts of her talk came as she presented insight on developing an ‘AI Bill of Rights’ and how that has worked out across the country – and, in related work, across the world, as societies anticipate the impact of the AI revolution. “There’s been a sort of flowering that's been fascinating,” she said, citing efforts in California, Connecticut and Oklahoma, and detailing cases of how this has worked out for states.
“They understood it at the level how it mattered for their lives,” she said, citing the use of a person’s voice and images as a hot-button issue in the AI age. AI is doubly hard in some ways, as Nelson explained, because it is so new and confusing to everyone. She mentioned an inherent aversion to dealing with AI at any level from legislators and others.Importantly, Nelson went over three big principles of trying to get over these challenges: