Vasant Dhar

3 weeks ago | thehill.com | Vasant Dhar

President Trump and Elon Musk’s DOGE initiative is misapplying artificial intelligence and missing its full potential. The first round of mass layoffs of government employees has resulted in a public backlash. In response, the president said the next phase of the DOGE initiative will be more precise: “I don’t want to see a big cut where a lot of good people are cut.”So what would a better approach to leveraging AI in a government landscape — the scalpel instead of the chainsaw — look like?

3 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Vasant Dhar

President Trump and Elon Musk’s DOGE initiative is misapplying artificial intelligence and missing its full potential. The first round of mass layoffs of government employees has resulted in a public backlash. In response, the president said the next phase of the DOGE initiative will be more precise: “I don’t want to see a big cut where a lot of good people are cut.”So what would a better approach to leveraging AI in a government landscape — the scalpel instead of the chainsaw — look like?

Jan 14, 2025 | blog.contraminds.com | Vasant Dhar

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Oct 21, 2024 | cacm.acm.org | Vasant Dhar |R. Colin Johnson |Marc Rotenberg |Robin Hill

Artificial intelligence (AI) captured the world’s attention in 2023 with the emergence of pre-trained models such as GPT, on which the conversational AI system ChatGPT is based. For the first time, we can converse with an entity, however imperfectly, about anything, as we do with other humans. This new capability provided by pre-trained models has created a paradigm shift in AI, transforming it from an application to a general-purpose technology that is configurable to specific uses.

Apr 7, 2023 | thehill.com | Vasant Dhar

For policymakers to truly safeguard against the unique threats of AI, they must enact an AI “Bill of Liabilities” that puts some onus on its creators without stifling innovation. To start, it is important to recognize the unique aspects of AI that create two new kinds of risk. First, modern AI systems function more like agents than software tools and can interact directly with the world.