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A Realist Perspective on AI Regulation

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.
A Realist Perspective on AI Regulation

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.
A Realist Perspective on AI Regulation

Sep 16, 2024 | flipboard.com | Viktor Mayer-Schönberger

14 hours agoWith Google, Microsoft, Apple and OpenAI creating new AI models and systems, it's good to stay up to date on all the latest terminology. ChatGPT's launch in late 2022 completely changed people's understanding of technology. Suddenly, people were able to have meaningful conversations with machines, …
Can We Trust AI to Make Decisions?

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.
Using ChatGPT to Make Better Decisions

Aug 24, 2023 | flipboard.com | Viktor Mayer-Schönberger

8 hours agoChatGPT, OpenAI’s text-generating AI chatbot, has taken the world by storm. It’s able to write essays, code and more given short text prompts, hyper-charging productivity. But it also has a more…nefarious side. In any case, AI tools are not going away — and indeed has expanded dramatically since its …
Hacking and the Social Contract

Feb 10, 2023 | schneier.com | Viktor Mayer-Schönberger

Hacking and the Social Contract View or Download in PDF FormatThe concept of “hacking” is not an invention of the digital age. Nor is it a purely technical process, although today it often requires some technical expertise. Humans have always tried to find loopholes in the systems of rules we find ourselves beholden to. When we reach a wall, we try to find a way around it.
Hacking and the social contract

Feb 9, 2023 | science.org | Andrew Feinberg |Ryohei Iwata |Danyel Lee |Viktor Mayer-Schönberger

Information & AuthorsInformationPublished In ScienceVolume 379 | Issue 663210 February 2023CopyrightCopyright © 2023 The Authors, some rights reserved; exclusive licensee American Association for the Advancement of Science. No claim to original U.S. Government Works. Submission historyPublished in print: 10 February 2023PermissionsRequest permissions for this article.