Addison's views are pro AI. Talk a little bit about her views. How far is Addison wanting to push this if she's elected?
TL;DRAddison wants regulated, incremental AI research, lifting restrictions and enabling grants for improving simple systems, rather than pushing for full AI everywhere, though critics fear a Pandora's box.
I think in her initial pitch, she's basically saying some of these simpler systems we have, we're due to open up very restricted research into how we can improve them, because she is of a belief that if we can improve these systems even slightly, they may make things run more efficiently. The massive manufacturing facilities all over ArcCorp might be able to be more efficient, use less electricity. So she's hoping that through additional research, we might be able to advance those, to make some of those, I don't know if you want to call them dummy AI systems, better. And thus lead to new breakthroughs or to new areas that we can go into. The argument against that obviously is that once you start to, it becomes a Pandora's box: maybe you accidentally discover something that then can't be stopped or leads to something bigger. So that's the argument against it. But yeah, she's not out here arguing full AI everything. She's like, hey guys, it's been a few hundred years. We're smart. We can do this in a regulated, smart way by taking these incremental steps potentially. But there's obviously potential drawbacks.
[She's] for regulation, but just for lifting up the restrictions on the initial steps.
Yeah, not be superstitious about this, like, oh, we shouldn't be afraid of the knowledge. Let's just be smart about it.
Yeah, right now a lot of AI research doesn't get grant money, basically, and she wants them to get grant money.
And a lot of it's illegal.