Licensing AI Engineers

2024-03-25 11:04

Stephen March 25, 2024 8:02 AM. Physician and attorney self governance are both organized at the state level.

There are advantages to operation at this scale - chiefly that smaller communities will tend to know their members better.

Another is that these professionals are relatively evenly distributed, relative to population and very visible within society.

I don't think that AI self governance is workable within that model.

Designers are geographically concentrated and can perform their roles with little or no contact with the public.

A national licensing and self-governance system would therefore rely on the best intentions of members who are poorly incentivized to act ethically.

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