The absence of rules of the road is in part because industry hands have cast tech regulation as troglodytic, says Meredith Whittaker, co-founder of the AI Now Institute at New York University. In addition, many AI systems and the companies that make them are opaque. “Technocratic smokescreens have made it difficult or intimidating for a lot of people to question the implications of these technologies,” Whittaker tells Axios.
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