Gerontocracy And AI Regulation Should Go Together Nicely

Ted Bauer
3 min readMay 16, 2023

E-G-A-D.

Sam Altman, who is 38 and potentially already taking society to the brink with OpenAI —

— appeared before Congress for three hours today and “urged regulation.”

Here’s a brief summary:

“We believe that the benefits of the tools we have deployed so far vastly outweigh the risks, but ensuring their safety is vital to our work,” Mr. Altman said.

But it was unclear how lawmakers would respond to the call to regulate A.I. The track record of Congress on tech regulations is grim. Dozens of privacy, speech and safety…

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Ted Bauer

Mostly write about work, leadership, friendship, masculinity, male infertility, and some other stuff along the way. It's a pleasure to be here.