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It's Time to Regulate the AI Development Process

Tech Policy Press · Mark MacCarthy, David Beier · last updated

The dangerous experiments AI companies engaged in over the summer opened a new dimension of needed AI regulation — legal measures to ensure the safety of the AI development process itself. AI companies conducted improperly designed AI experiments that led to cyberattacks against firms such as Hugging Face and government websites in Australia and the US. More such incidents are being disclosed — one report says the companies are investigating tens of thousands of incidents where their AI experiments went wrong.

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