I don’t think it is primarily age of decision makers which functions as a barrier to it. Mostly structural factors.
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Washington D.C. Culture Fails to Convert Competence into Digital Solutions
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Note that in the culture that is Washington D.C. something can be important to an agency with a multi billion dollar budget, and a “critical” resource, and simply not be made, because the culture that is Washington D.C. believes that it cannot turn competence into websites.
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Ethical AI Practices: Global Leaders Shape Responsible Future
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The discussions at Expand North Star 2023 are just the beginning. With global leaders and industry experts steering the conversation, the journey towards ethical AI practices that respect societal values and contribute positively is well underway!
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AI Governance: Balancing Innovation with Responsible Global Growth
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While AI offers vast developmental potential–unregulated advancements might pose risks. The goal? Harnessing AI’s power through informed governance, ensuring global tech growth is responsible and equitable.
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UAE Oxford Partnership Advances Global AI Governance Standards
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Big news at @expandnorthstar 2023: key figures, including @EMostaque
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Challenges in Training Language Models for Public Opinion Alignment
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Training an LM to abide by qualitative public opinions involves a large number of subjective judgment calls and technical challenges. We enumerate all of the messy challenges we encountered so others can build upon our work.
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Public Collective Deliberation Directs AI Behavior Online
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We believe our work may be one of the first instances where members of the public have collectively directed the behavior of an AI through an online deliberation process. You can read more about our research in our blog post here:
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Public AI Constitution Overlaps 50% With Anthropic Version
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We used Polis to ask our public to deliberate on the normative values they would like AI to abide by, and then used those opinions to curate a new AI constitution. We found that the Public constitution overlapped with the Anthropic-written constitution ~50% of the time.
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Public vs Private AI Constitution Comparison Analysis
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Some key differences stood out: the Public constitution focused more on objectivity and impartiality, and placed a greater emphasis on accessibility, among others. You can see a comparison of the two constitutions here: https://
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AI Startup Wins Legal Battle Over Facial Recognition Data UK
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A big win for the controversial AI startup, which faced £7.5 million in fines and potentially having to delete UK residents' facial recognition data.