One of the Biggest Problems in Regulating AI Is Agreeing on a Definition - Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
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Subtle differences in wording can have major impacts on some of the most important problems facing policymakers.
In 2017, spurred by advocacy from civil society groups, the New York City Council created a task force to address the city’s growing use of artificial intelligence. But the task force quickly ran aground attempting to come to a consensus on the scope of “automated decision systems.” In one hearing, a city agency argued that the task force’s definition was so expansive that it might include simple calculations such as formulas in spreadsheets. By the end of its eighteen-month term, the task force’s ambitions had narrowed from addressing how the city uses automated decision systems to simply…
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