Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Role at the time: Actor and founder of HitRecord, giving a toast as a TIME100 AI honouree
Condemned
Statement summary
Giving a toast at the TIME100 AI Impact Dinner, Gordon-Levitt compared AI to cars and housing, industries that must follow safety law or be shut down, and said today's AI companies are operating in a way that the law should already be stopping. He argued their own leaders and employees had admitted the products were dangerous and could not be controlled.
“Why are cars safe to drive? Why are houses safe to live in? It’s because car companies and construction companies ... they have to follow laws. And if they don’t, then the law can come and shut those companies down … “So let’s just be clear here: today’s AI companies are operating in such a way that the law should be shutting them down.”
Open source (opens in a new tab)Joseph Gordon-Levitt Calls on Government to Shut Down and Regulate AI CompaniesGordon-Levitt toast; car and construction comparison; closing call on voters
Why we used this label
Gordon-Levitt says current companies should be shut down under the law and criticizes politicians for failing to act. That rejects the present handling of AI safety.