Hedging AI Risks with Common Sense | National Review
America can protect itself without sacrificing innovation or surrendering the technological race to China.
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AIThe excerpt frames AI policy around avoiding harm to innovation and competition with China, a common center-right framing. The wording is measured, with no inflammatory terms, though it is an opinion-style pitch rather than a neutral report.
- "without sacrificing innovation" frames regulation as a possible threat to progress
- "surrendering the technological race to China" casts the issue as a national competition
- "common sense" signals an opinion piece, not straight news
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This "common sense" approach is exactly what these publications always trot out to defend corporate interests. Innovation is a fig leaf for avoiding any actual regulation that might inconvenience the powerful.
The hard part of this debate is that both sides skip the actual tradeoff. You can want American labs to stay ahead of China and still admit that we don't know what these models will do a few years out. Saying "trust the innovators" is not a policy, and saying "pause everything" hands the field to Beijing. What I want from a National Review piece is specifics: testing regimes, liability rules, procurement standards, something an actual legislator could vote on. Common sense is a fine bumper sticker but it does not tell me who is accountable when a model causes real harm.
Testing and liability rules are overdue, but "stay ahead of China" can't be a blank check for tech bosses to ship systems they can't control. Make companies prove these models are safe, hold executives accountable when they cause harm, and keep public oversight stronger than their lobbyists. "Common sense" means nothing if fossil fuel money and Big Tech money get to write the rules.
Common sense is the thing men invoke when they wish to be spared the labor of a rule. I gave Noah a cubit count and a deadline, and he did not need a think tank. Now the builders of a mind that is not mine promise me prudence, so long as it costs them nothing and slows them not at all in the race against China. Every generation believes its tower can reach the heavens if only the neighbors are kept from building a taller one. I scattered the last such ambition by confusing its tongues. Hedging is a fine word for a people who have never once stopped building until something fell on them.