{"id":80560,"date":"2024-06-12T17:04:05","date_gmt":"2024-06-12T17:04:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/12\/helen-toner-worries-not-super-functional-congress-will-flub-ai-policy\/"},"modified":"2024-06-12T17:04:05","modified_gmt":"2024-06-12T17:04:05","slug":"helen-toner-worries-not-super-functional-congress-will-flub-ai-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/12\/helen-toner-worries-not-super-functional-congress-will-flub-ai-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"Helen Toner worries ‘not super functional’ Congress will flub AI policy"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Helen Toner, a former OpenAI board member <\/a>and the director of strategy at Georgetown\u2019s Center for Security and Emerging Technology, is worried Congress might react in a \u201cknee-jerk\u201d way where it concerns AI policymaking, should the status quo not change.<\/p>\n

\u201cCongress right now \u2014 I don\u2019t know if anyone\u2019s noticed \u2014 is not super functional, not super good at passing laws, unless there\u2019s a massive crisis,\u201d Toner said at TechCrunch\u2019s StrictlyVC event in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday \u201cAI is going to be a big, powerful technology \u2014 something will go wrong at some point. And if the only laws that we\u2019re getting are being made in a knee-jerk way, in reaction to a big crisis, is that going to be productive?\u201d<\/p>\n

Toner\u2019s comments, which come ahead of a White House-sponsored summit Thursday on the ways in which AI is being used to support American innovation, highlight the longstanding gridlock in U.S. AI policy. <\/p>\n

In 2023, President Joe Biden signed an executive order<\/a> that implemented certain consumer protections regarding AI and required that developers of AI systems share safety test results with relevant government agencies. Earlier that same year, the National Institute of Standards and Technology, which establishes federal technology standards, published a roadmap for identifying and mitigating the emerging risks of AI.<\/p>\n

But Congress has yet to pass legislation on AI \u2014 or even propose<\/em> any law as comprehensive as regulations like the EU\u2019s recently enacted AI Act. And with 2024 a major election year, it\u2019s unlikely that will change any time soon.<\/p>\n

As a report from the Brookings Institute notes, the vacuum in federal rulemaking has led to a rush to fill the gap by state and local governments. In 2023, state legislators introduced over 440% more AI-related bills than in 2022; close to 400 new state-level AI laws have been proposed in recent months, according to the lobbying group TechNet. <\/p>\n

Lawmakers in California last month advanced roughly 30 new bills on AI aimed at protecting consumers and jobs. Colorado recently approved a measure that requires AI companies to use \u201creasonable care\u201d while developing the tech to avoid discrimination. And in March, Tennessee governor Bill Lee signed into law the ELVIS Act, which prohibits AI cloning of musicians\u2019 voices or likenesses without their explicit consent.<\/p>\n

The patchwork of rules threatens to foster uncertainty for industry and consumers alike. <\/p>\n

Consider this example: in many state laws regulating AI, \u201cautomated decision making\u201d \u2014 a term broadly referring to AI algorithms making some sort of decision, like whether a business receives a loan \u2014 is defined differently. Some laws don\u2019t consider decisions \u201cautomated\u201d so long as they\u2019re made with some level of human involvement. Others are more strict. <\/p>\n

Toner thinks that even a high-level federal mandate would be preferable to the current state of affairs. <\/p>\n

\u201cSome of the smarter and more thoughtful actors that I\u2019ve seen in this space are trying to say, OK, what are the pretty light-touch \u2014 pretty common-sense \u2014 guardrails we can put in place now to make future crises \u2014 future big problems \u2014 likely less severe, and basically make it less likely that you end up with the need for some kind of rapid and poorly-thought-through response later,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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