MIT Technology Review January 5, 2024
The coming year is going to see the first sweeping AI laws enter into force, with global efforts to hold tech companies accountable.
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In 2023, AI policy and regulation went from a niche, nerdy topic to front-page news. This is partly thanks to OpenAI’s ChatGPT, which helped AI go mainstream, but which also exposed people to how AI systems work—and don’t work. It has been a monumental year for policy: we saw the first sweeping AI law agreed upon in the European Union, Senate hearings and executive orders in...