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California is trying to regulate its AI giants — again | A long-awaited report says companies are “simply inadequate at fully understanding” risks and harms.
Meanwhile, Congress is trying to shut it down.
The report — co-led by Fei-Fei Li, Co-Director of the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence; Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar, President of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; and Jennifer Tour Chayes, Dean of the UC Berkeley College of Computing, Data Science, and Society — concluded that frontier AI breakthroughs in California could heavily impact agriculture, biotechnology, clean tech, education, finance, medicine and transportation. That’s especially important because the AI industry is still the Wild West when it comes to transparency, with little agreement on best practices and “systemic opacity in key areas” like how data is acquired, safety and security processes, pre-release testing, and potential downstream impact, the authors wrote. Even an API or disclosures of a model’s weights may not let third-party evaluators effectively test for risks, the report noted, and companies could use “suppressive” terms of service to ban or threaten legal action against independent researchers that uncover safety flaws.
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