(Politico) Last Thursday POLITICO’s Mark Scott, author of the Digital Bridge newsletter, interviewed the computer scientist and activist Timnit Gebru about a recent open letter from her Distributed AI Research Institute that argued — contra the Future of Life Institute’s high-profile letter calling for an “AI pause” — that the major harms caused by AI are already here, and therefore “Regulatory efforts should focus on transparency, accountability and preventing exploitative labor practices.”
Mark asked her what she thinks regulators’ role should be in this fast-moving landscape, and how society might take a more proactive approach to shaping AI before it simply shapes us. This conversation has been edited for length and clarity.
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