Reading this article on the challenges makes me wonder how feasible it is. Three different approaches:
“When it comes to digital regulation, the United States is following a market-driven approach, China is advancing a state-driven approach, and the EU is pursuing a rights-driven approach.”
Yet I am not sure if the speed of development isn’t going to out pace any regulations, especially as they need to be globally enforceable to be effective. Your thoughts?
While I see where all of the concern comes from, there are major problems when it comes to trying to regulate current technology. The first problem is that many of the people writing legislation don’t understand how the technology works or what their legislation is actually saying in terms of the technology. I will use a US federal judge as an example where he ruled that all ISP’s and other providers had to make it so that this one website can never show up again(oversimplification for brevity). This is literally impossible because you can’t ban all domains they might possibly get and even if you could ban the domains, you can’t ban them from showing up as a different entity with a different IP.
The next major problem that I see particularly in the US is that technology is changing faster than we can understand it as a species. We have entered into an era where the technological landscape changes every 10 years, and we can’t even fully figured out equality rights despite having this fight for more than 50 years.
The next problem ass I see it you run into with technology regulation is the regulations need to outpace the technology. One you let it out you can’t really put it back. Let’s take some of the AI’s currently. Creators found out their AI was being used for things they didn’t like so they removed that capability. This just led to the people that were doing that to creating another instance of an AI that would.
And the last that I’m going to bring up is that like you mentioned it has to be a global effort. Internet and any technology that uses IP base anything is a global technology. Oh we want to limit this to this one geographic area, that’s fine I’ll just fire up a VPN. Oh you blocked all the major VPN IP addresses, that’s cool to I’ll just get this cloud server in the country I want with a static public IP and VPN tunnel into it and now I’m still in that country. Unless they literally block off networking with other countries, which causes major major issues, there is no way to stop that.
I would love to see some good regulation happen that ensures everybody is safe from the dangers that technology brings. But I guess that I’m a pessimist by thinking that it may be to late.