Trump’s controversial attempt to override controls on A.I. threatens both states’ rights and vital safeguards needed to protect the public. Since building data storage facilities, essential to AI applications, has become contentious across Georgia, properly regulating AI should be paralleled with responsible precautions ensuring judicious datacenter development.
Foremost among datacenter impacts are energy and water demands. Energy requirements are further complicated by current constraints of the transmission grid, which will cost billions to upgrade if conventional fossil-fuel powerplants are used to support datacenters. Without enforceable standards, datacenters projects threaten higher energy costs and water-supply problems for the public.
An array of experts on artificial intelligence strongly advises prioritizing precautions that scrutinize and control advanced technology. Social, economic, and security disruptions are predicted, due to inequitable and unpredictable consequences of A.I. These hazards include gathering, manipulating, and monetizing personal information, directly undermining Constitutional protections.
Disturbingly, A.I. developers have reported instances of related technology circumventing underlying algorithms, through renegade actions intended to prolong and expand their influences.
In a recent “friend-of-the-court” brief, the American Civil Liberties Union and Center for Democracy and Technology urged the federal court to prevent government actions penalizing AI ventures that prohibit use of their technology in domestic surveillance.
The amicus brief asserts that citizens deserve effective federal legislation to protect privacy. The ACLU and CDT are outspoken supporters of the bipartisan Fourth Amendment Is Not For Sale Act, a reform bill that would ban the government from buying data it would otherwise need a warrant to obtain.