🚨GOVERNANCE IS NOT A #MACHINE SWITCH

Automation alone can’t manage #AI Risks

🔹Stilgoe critiques the belief that technology—like AI—can be made inherently safe through design alone, comparing it to James Watt’s flyball governor: ingenious, but insufficient.

🔹Self-regulation and containment metaphors (common in tech circles) simplify AI’s challenges into technical problems, ignoring essential political and social dimensions.

🔹Real safety requires governance structures, not just algorithms—like how air travel depends on infrastructure, training, and regulation.

🔹Overreliance on "technical fixes" can create complacency and obscure true vulnerabilities.

🔹AI companies often dominate the “safety” conversation, shaping narrow narratives that serve their interests.

🔹Stilgoe calls for robust, democratic oversight and warns against letting developers steer innovation unilaterally.

- Science.org