Regulation of AI as a Means to Power Emerj

When I first became focused on the military and existential concerns of AI in 2012, there was only a small handful of publications and organizations focused on the ethical concerns of AI. MIRI, the Future of Humanity Institute, the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies, and the personal blogs of Ben Goertzel and Nick Bostrom was most of my reading at the time. These limited sources focused mostly on the consequences of artificial general intelligence (i.e. By 2014, artificial intelligence made its way firmly onto the radar of almost everyone in the tech world. New startups began (by 2015) ubiquitously including "machine learning" in their pitch decks, and 3-4-year-old startups were re-branding themselves around the value proposition of "AI." Not until later 2016 did the AI ethics wave make it into the mainstream beyond the level of Elon Musk's tweets. By 2017, some business conferences began having breakout sessions around AI ethics – mostly the practical day-to-day concerns (privacy, security, transparency).