Urs Gasser

Oct 15, 2024 | issues.org | Urs Gasser |Vol. XLI

In “Governing AI With Intelligence” (Issues, Summer 2024), Urs Gasser provides an insightful survey on regulating artificial intelligence during a time of expanding development of a technology that has both tremendous upside potential but also downside risk. His article should prove especially valuable for policymakers faced with making critical decisions in a rapidly changing and complex technological landscape.

Sep 17, 2024 | almendron.com | Urs Gasser |Viktor Mayer-Schönberger

Dozens of nations around the world are hurrying legislation to regulate the design and use of artificial intelligence. Ahead of most, the European Union just passed a comprehensive AI Act. Its stringent restrictions will come into force over the next two years. Many other nations are not far behind.

Sep 16, 2024 | foreignpolicy.com | Viktor Mayer-Schönberger |Urs Gasser

Dozens of nations around the world are hurrying legislation to regulate the design and use of artificial intelligence. Ahead of most, the European Union just passed a comprehensive AI Act. Its stringent restrictions will come into force over the next two years. Many other nations are not far behind.

May 31, 2024 | skeptic.com | Urs Gasser |Viktor Mayer-Schönberger

Machine-based decision-making is an interesting vision for the future: Humanity, crippled by its own cognitive deformations, tries to improve its lot by opting to outsource its decisions to adaptive machines—a kind of mental prosthetic. For most of the twentieth century, artificial intelligence was based on representing explicit sets of rules in software and having the computer “reason” based on these rules—the machine’s “intelligence” involved applying the rules to a particular situation.

May 21, 2024 | issues.org | Urs Gasser |Jay Lloyd

Patterns are emerging in the various efforts to regulate artificial intelligence around the globe. Understanding these evolving AI norms could help govern this technology intelligently. Artificial intelligence is now decades in the making, but especially since the emergence of ChatGPT, policymakers and global publics have been focused on AI’s promise and its considerable, even existential, risks.