Should the AI makers also be the AI regulators?
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🗓️ 3 August 2023
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Executives of seven tech companies gathered at the White House last month and committed to voluntarily address the risks posed by artificial intelligence. Just days later, a subset of those industry players, including OpenAI, Anthropic and Google, announced the formation of their own regulatory body called the Frontier Model Forum, which they said is focused on the responsible development of powerful AI tools. The forum is set to have plenty of bells and whistles, including an advisory board and a public library of solutions to support “best practices,” but concrete targets to determine whether the oversight effort is working? Those are a bit more TBD. Marketplace’s Lily Jamali asked Rumman Chowdhury, CEO and co-founder of Humane Intelligence and a responsible AI fellow at Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, about the pros and cons of this kind of group.
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| 0:43.3 | Leaders from seven artificial intelligence companies committed at the White House last month |
| 0:48.3 | to voluntarily address the risks posed by AI, or try to, anyway. Just days later, |
| 0:54.8 | a subset of those industry players, including OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google, |
| 1:00.0 | announced the formation of their own regulatory body, called the Frontier Model Forum, |
| 1:05.2 | and focused on the responsible development of powerful AI tools. It's set to have plenty of |
| 1:11.6 | bells and whistles, an advisory board, a public library of solutions to help support best practices, |
| 1:18.4 | but concrete targets to figure out whether the oversight is working. Those are a bit more TBD. |
| 1:25.0 | Raman Chowdry is the CEO and co-founder of Humane Intelligence and the Responsible AI Fellow |
| 1:31.2 | at Harvard's Berkman Klein Center. I asked her about the pros and the cons of this kind of group. |
| 1:37.6 | A lot of the leaders of these companies and some people who work at these companies will say in |
| 1:41.7 | order to understand how best to regulate this technology. You have to have a deep hands-on |
| 1:48.5 | experience building these models accessing this data. However, there is a perspective that you get |
| 1:55.3 | when your mission and goal is not to profit maximize and not to build a product that is going |
| 2:01.1 | to meet your bottom line. So it's kind of odd to say that the best people to understand the harms |
| 2:07.5 | of these models are the ones building the models themselves because as if you're asking oil and |
| 2:13.2 | gas companies to solve climate change, they're incentivized very differently. So what is a better way? |
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