Top AI Experts Call for Greater Focus on AI Safety and Ethics
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Top AI researchers say governments, firms should spend at least 1/3 of AI R&D on safety and ethics.
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Paper issued before London AI Safety Summit; authors include 3 Turing Award winners and a Nobel laureate.
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Authors say governments should mandate legal liability for foreseeable, preventable harms from frontier AI systems.
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Recent powerful AI models are too powerful for democratic oversight, authors argue.
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Some companies argue regulation will stifle innovation and impose high costs; authors disagree.
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