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Kak said there is a chance now for lawmakers and regulators to take action before AI systems are “already entrenched in a particular trajectory.”
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“Right now, compute seems like a more concrete input to regulate,” said Vipra, who co-authored a “Computational Power and AI” report released last week by the AI Now Institute, a New York-based think tank focused on the technology’s social implications.
Politico
Oct 2, 2023
Tech CEOs Met With Congress To Discuss The Future Of AI Regulation
Sarah Myers West and Brian Ray join AirTalk host Larry Mantle to talk about the future of AI policy.
KPCC
Sep 15, 2023
Musk, Zuckerberg Lead Parade of Tech Titans to Senate AI Event
“There’s been quite a lot of skepticism around whose views are represented and whether the concerns of the public are adequately represented here,” said Sarah Myers West, managing director of the AI Now Institute, a policy research group.
Bloomberg Law
Sep 12, 2023
The AI Crackdown Is Coming
Aware that blind trust in the benevolence of Big Tech is not an option, West and her team at the AI Now Institute this month published a new framework called “Zero Trust AI Governance.” It’s exactly what it sounds like — a call for lawmakers to take matters into their own hands.
The Atlantic
Aug 7, 2023
How judges, not politicians, could dictate America’s AI rules
“It seems like the more straightforward path [toward an AI rulebook is] to start with the existing laws on the books,” says Sarah Myers West, the managing director of the AI Now Institute, a research group.
MIT Technology Review
Jul 17, 2023
The FTC’s biggest AI enforcement tool? Forcing companies to delete their algorithms
“It really gets to the core of what is a common practice in the tech industry to use wide swaths of data, not necessarily for the purpose under which the data was originally obtained,” said Sarah Myers West, managing director of AI Now and a former FTC adviser.
Cyberscoop
Jul 5, 2023
Stop talking about tomorrow’s AI doomsday when AI poses risks today
Letters written by tech-industry leaders are “essentially drawing boundaries around who counts as an expert in this conversation”, says Amba Kak, director of the AI Now Institute in New York City, which focuses on the social consequences of AI.
Nature
Jun 27, 2023
Congress is racing to regulate AI. Silicon Valley is eager to teach them how.
West said executives like Google’s Schmidt are fueling the perception that AI is too difficult for Congress to grasp. That, she said, is “a convenient narrative that positions accountability out of the hands of the people that the public has vested it in — and into the hands of the industry that is benefiting.”
Washington Post
Jun 17, 2023
The AI apocalypse: Imminent risk or misdirection?
Discussions about artificial intelligence (AI) have quickly turned from the excited to the apocalyptic. Are warnings that AI could pose an existential threat valid, or do they distract from the real danger AI is already causing?
Al Jazeera
Jun 10, 2023
The Senate Is Getting a Crash Course on How to Regulate AI—From the AI Industry
“It’s such an irony seeing a posture about the concern of harm by people who are rapidly releasing into commercial use the system responsible for those very harms,” as Sarah Myers West, managing director of AI Now Institute, told the New York Times after Altman’s May testimony.
Vanity Fair
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