VentureBeat September 4, 2021
Governments face a range of policy challenges around AI technologies, many of which are exacerbated by the fact that they lack sufficiently detailed information. A whitepaper published this week by AI ethicist Jess Whittlestone and former OpenAI policy director Jack Clark outlines a potential solution that involves investing in governments’ capacity to monitor the capabilities of AI systems. As the paper points out, AI as an industry routinely creates a range of data and measures, and if the data was synthesized, the insights could improve governments’ ability to understand the technologies while helping to create tools to intervene.
“Governments should play a central role in establishing measurement and monitoring initiatives themselves while subcontracting out other aspects to third parties, such...