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What Governments Need to Stop AI Incidents From Becoming Crises
What Governments Need to Stop AI Incidents From Becoming Crises
To prevent ‘moderate’ AI incidents from escalating into more severe crises, governments need two things: the ability to quickly detect and respond to incidents at home, and dedicated channels to share warnings and crisis prevention best practices with other countries.
Two new articles from The Future Society explain how to build both.
How To Make International AI Verification a Reality
How To Make International AI Verification a Reality
Countries outside the U.S.–China AI race can build the verification technologies needed to make an international agreement to slow AI development enforceable. This memo suggests research priorities.
What compute on European soil might buy Europe and what it depends on
What compute on European soil might buy Europe and what it depends on
Across Europe, there is growing appetite for locating large compute capacity at home. This post maps what the benefits’ proponents claim such a buildout might bring and the key open questions these claims stand or fall on.
Buyer Beware: What AI-Enabled Weapons in Africa Reveal About Verification
Buyer Beware: What AI-Enabled Weapons in Africa Reveal About Verification
AI rules cannot reliably protect people when compliance cannot be checked. In a new CIGI policy brief co-authored by George Gor (TFS) and Kofi Yeboah (Mozilla), AI-enabled weapons in Africa serve as a case study of how procurement and regional verification can test supplier claims, reduce risks to civilians and military personnel and impose consequences when safeguards fail.
Determining the State of the Art in General-Purpose AI Risk Management: From Code to Practice
Determining the State of the Art in General-Purpose AI Risk Management: From Code to Practice
The EU’s AI Act and Code of Practice requires providers of the most advanced AI models to meet the ‘state of the art’ (SOTA) in safety and security. In a new policy memo, we argue that SOTA is best understood as a process-driven concept, advanced by the broader expert ecosystem.
EU AI Act meets AI Agents
EU AI Act meets AI Agents
Highlights from Tech Policy Press article “The EU AI Act is Not Ready for Agents,” examining how the EU AI Act applies to AI agents and governance challenges.
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