Radio discussion on AI regulation, tech freedom, and weak-hand firearm tactics

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Bill Frady: ...Bill Frady on News Talk 98.9 WORD. The thing about AI is that AI is going to touch everything. And in the end, uh, the decisions that the hive mind makes in the next one to two years are going to make either benefactors or victims out of our grandchildren. We can set innovation and freedom back 50 years like we did with nuclear power, or we can simply let them do their thing and bask in the results. And there is precedent here. The internet and the various surrounding technologies have been, uh, relatively completely unregulated compared to any other industry of similar size, and the result is telling. There is no industry of similar size. And the result has been disruptive. But it's hard to disagree that on the net, it has been positive, uh, to the tunes of tens, possibly hundreds of trillions of dollars in consumer surplus. A world that looked at the promise of the web in 1995 and said, "This is extremely dangerous and disruptive, let's have the government license all innovation in this space," would be a sadder world and a poorer one. The tricky part is always going to be the first sentence, though: The internet is extremely dangerous and disruptive. Now, two things make that okay. In a lot of cases, disruption and danger are a feature, not a bug. But when they are a bug, the answer to make innovation faster is to make it faster and easier, more of that, you know, all the time. Technology is the biggest, most society-altering industry. It means that questions of technological freedom have high stakes. And if what Anthropic and OpenAI are allowing the government to do to their models becomes the norm, it will be more destructive to freedom than any gun control law would be. These companies raised 125 billion and 190 billion dollars in funding respectively, and companies committed to freedom would spend a few basis points of their funding to sue the government and preserve the technological freedom that the internet has forged. Instead, they have decided to willfully buffalo-jump away the freedom that is their birthright—that is their birthright—trading it for a pat on the head from the US government. The steel-man of their position is that if they don't go along, they won't have a company left to defend. But the rebuttal here would be if they do go along, they won't have companies worth defending. Now, people often seem to think of tech freedom through a First Amendment lens because that's the only mainstream framework to articulate a technological legal argument for "the government is required to leave me alone." But as tech becomes more dangerous—you know, AI, drones, humanoid robots, biochemical research—well, then the Second Amendment really comes into focus, doesn't it? The Second Amendment embraces the idea that dangerous technology, um, should be decentralized and that the bad things about that will be solved by the good things about that. Gun rights are winning because they've leaned into this. AI is every bit as pivotal for individual freedom, so we should think about the rights to create, sell, buy, and possess it through that very same lens. Let's, uh, let's see. Let's go to the phones. Let's go to Kenny. Yes, sir. Kenny: Yes, Bill. Kenny G. here. Um, this, um, conversation that you just had with the gentleman from Utah couldn't have been more apropos. I've got a meeting tomorrow to find out if I'm going to have surgery on my right shoulder, and I've been working on trying to, um, do more self-weak hand. And when we shoot USPSA every now and then, we have a few segments of the match that you shoot, um, weak hand, but nothing self-defense, you know, drawing and getting the gun to your left hand and, and, and stuff like that. So, my, my thought is, I've got one gun that's got a safety on it, which I, I think would be advantageous to help you manage the gun to rest your thumb on the safety versus a non-safety gun. I don't know, what are your thoughts? Bill Frady: Uh, you know, it really just co ...

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