If I understand the question, it's how we would get government to a place where it has a similar level of technical competence with AI as compared to the AI companies. I think that's very difficult. The first step is probably to try to hold the companies more accountable and to regulate them more seriously.
One reason I think they have so much more talent is they're able to pay much higher salaries because they're getting a lot of investment based on this premise that they will build AGI and superintelligence and then, again, take everybody's job and make trillions of dollars from that. Right now, there's a huge imbalance in terms of the talent, and that's not something that can easily be corrected, frankly. It would be a pretty lengthy process to fully address that.
On the other hand, one of the main issues right now is a lack of transparency into AI companies. There's very little oversight in terms of what they're doing. It used to be the case maybe five years ago that these companies would publish most of the research they did, so there was a shared understanding in the research community of how the most advanced systems work. That also helped audit the systems for safety more effectively. This has stopped being the case. Companies really don't release very much information at all about their systems, and there's no independent oversight that is mandated.
We need programs for independent experts to be able to look at the details of the AI systems. That doesn't just include evaluating or testing the model, but also includes having the necessary information about how the model was developed and what data was used, which is often copyrighted data. There have been a number of large-scale lawsuits about that. Also, what training methods were used? Was it trained in a way that is known to cause addiction, dependency and other psychological issues? We know this is something that has happened repeatedly in the tech industry with social media and with AI. Finally, how is the system being deployed and with what additional safeguards and guardrails? What is the company doing to monitor how it's being used? Companies have a strong incentive to understand how their products are being used in order to make more money from them.
That's something the government also needs to—