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AI could disrupt the election. Congress is running out of time to respond
Absent congressional action, the task will fall to other government bodies — such as consumer protection agencies and financial regulators — to try to regulate AI under existing laws, said Sarah Myers West, managing director of the AI Now Institute and a former AI advisor to the Federal Trade Commission.
CNN Business
Feb 14, 2024
What to know about landmark AI regulations proposed in California
"It's great to see the focus on addressing and mitigating harms before they go into the market," Myers West told ABC News.
ABC News
Feb 10, 2024
Former FTC AI Advisor Reflects on Tech’s Tricky & Faulty Incentive Structure
"We need to effectively shift the incentive structures to ensure the companies are accountable to the public."
Analytics India
Feb 8, 2024
FTC focused on competition and dominance in generative AI space
Amba Kak, Executive Director of the AI Now Institute, explained that without sufficient funding, smaller companies will not be able to strike deals with third parties for valuable high quality data used to train models, and will be unable to compete with well-funded firms that are able to maximize access to publishers and the media industry and push for exclusivity with respect to data access.
Feb 6, 2024
EU’s powerful AI Act is here. But is it too late?
AI Now Institute Executive Director Amba Kak spoke positively of the AI Act, telling PopSci it was a “crucial counterpoint in a year that has otherwise largely been a deluge of weak voluntary proposals.”
Popular Science
Dec 12, 2023
Make no mistake—AI is owned by Big Tech
If we’re not careful, Microsoft, Amazon, and other large companies will leverage their position to set the policy agenda for AI, as they have in many other sectors.
MIT Tecnology Review
Dec 5, 2023
The AI Debate Is Happening in a Cocoon
Existential risks—or x-risks, as they’re sometimes known in AI circles—evoke blockbuster science-fiction movies and play to many people’s deepest fears. But AI already poses economic and physical threats—ones that disproportionately harm society’s most vulnerable people.
The Atlantic
Nov 9, 2023
Will a new regulation on AI help tame the machine?
“We should just be able to say, ‘We don’t want that kind of AI to be used, period, it’s too harmful for the public,’” said West.
.coda
Nov 3, 2023
Biden signs executive order to oversee and invest in AI
“It’s great to see the White House set the tone on the issues that matter most to the public: labor, civil rights, protecting privacy, promoting competition,” Myers West said by text message. “This underscores you can’t deal with the future risks of AI without adequately dealing with the present.”
NBC News
Oct 30, 2023
US House subcommittee dives into privacy, AI legislative recommendations
“We’re seeing new privacy threats emerge from AI systems; we talked about the future threats and how we don’t know where AI is going to go, but we absolutely do know what harms they’re already causing,” Kak said. “Unless we have rules of the road, we’re going to end up in a situation where this kind of state of play against consumers is entrenched.”
IAPP
Oct 19, 2023
