A: People didn’t initially think of AI as a trust question in the sense I mean here. They saw it more narrowly — as a controls or regulatory problem to govern the development and use of AI. That’s where governments and the academy landed when they began engaging on the issue, in part at the urging of the AI companies themselves.
But if you think too narrowly, you don’t end up in a good place. I tell people, “Think of the TikTok or Huawei problem — on steroids.” If the only way you’ve got to deal with things you don’t trust is to ban them, then you’re basically on a path to autarky and isolationism. That tends to breed more and more instability. It all goes in the wrong direction.
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