Machines can’t have the “divine spark” of humans, but Americans can make machines “with our values,” a Heritage Foundation technology expert said last week at the National Conservatism Conference in the nation’s capital.
“Conservatives must offer our own affirmative vision for AI,” said Kara Frederick, director of Heritage’s Tech Policy Center, referring to artificial intelligence in her talk at the Capital Hilton.
That vision would include “genuine American values,” “transparency,” and “self-government,” Frederick said during a Tuesday breakout session of the conference called “High Tech and the Nation” that also featured a Polish sociology professor and a former State Department official.
If the U.S. can design technology for the rest of the world that incorporates American values, it “will create a bulwark against Chinese…
