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A Fourth, Even Less Bad Way to Regulate AI (opens the original)
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The great Tyler Cowen has weighed in on “the least bad way to regulate AI,” and he starts from the right question: how to govern the risks of frontier development without slowing innovation. (Cowen writes only about frontier model development, not about risks from applications like chatbots, health diagnostics, or coding tools.) He gives good reasons to act. The executive branch now governs frontier models through a framework that is opaque, discretionary, and probably too deferential to nationa
The Government Gets AI First. You Might Not Get It at All. (opens the original)
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In the midst of the D.C. furor over Anthropic’s Mythos AI model and its cybersecurity capabilities, the Trump Administration issue a June 2 Executive Order on “Promoting Advanced Artificial Intelligence Innovation and Security.” One problem the EO sought to solve: how to get cutting-edge models into the hands of the good guys first, so they can harden their cyberdefenses before the models are released widely. The EO therefore charged cabinet officials with “design[ing] a vo
Should AI Follow the Law? (opens the original)
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AI should be required to follow the law before people can use it, right? Seems obvious.I recently argued that requiring AI to follow the law would be difficult, and worse, a mandate to do so could harm the law itself. That’s because humans follow the law not like we follow a map, but like the starling follows the murmuration: we contribute to its emergent development.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!jQ8H!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive
A Missing Word Makes a Big Difference (opens the original)
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Should Congress or the states establish the U.S. framework for AI governance? It is strange to me that this is even a question. “Preemption” has become a litmus test; some seem content to let the states effectively set federal policy on AI. But recent White House actions to opaquely and unpredictably block frontier AI model releases are spurring bipartisan interest in a more assertive congressional role. As a result, I believe there is right now more room than ever for congressional dealmaking o
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