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THERE
WILL BE
REGULATION
TO PROTECT
BOTH THE
CONSUMER
& THE AI
According to the roundtable, regulation
should be seen as two distinct buckets.
1
The first bucket is regulation for the
2
The second bucket is regulation for the
AI itself. The industry is now recognizing
that we’re close to AI being able to replicate
itself and we have to think about this very
consumer. This is similar to how we would
separately from existing consumer protection
regulate any other technology with potentially
regulation. This is because AI is already able
broad consumer and business impact, such as
to write code. When this happens we have AI
social media or medical devices. A framework
programs that are creating new AI programs.
needs to be in place to ensure a safe
Any AI program that can create the offspring
experience for consumers and in line behaviors
of new AI programs will be more successful
from the providers of these technologies.
evolutionarily if it can find mo e resources
We’ll be able to work through those, even
on which to run. One could imagine viruses
if some of them are a little bit novel around
created by AIs to find more places to run the
for example, who’s responsible, and if an AI
other AIs that they’re creating, and those will
makes an incorrect decision such as what
tend to reproduce themselves. We must start
we’ve already seen with bias or hallucinations.
discussions about what the future will hold
There are analogous situations such as errors
with a resource competition between humanity
of medical devices that can be high stakes.
and the AI programs that we’ve created.
The regulatory piece will come together over
time - we are in very early stages and it’ll take
some interaction. The recent EU Artificial
Intelligence Act is a first example of such
regulation.
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