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Poorly targeted AI regulation risks creating backlash against safety
If AI regulation is poorly targeted and creates unnecessary burdens, practitioners may conclude safety concerns are exaggerated after wasting time on compliance. Badly designed regulation could generate durable consensus against future accountability measures, making surgical targeting essential.
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Dario Amodei, Amanda Askell & Chris Olah on AI Development and Safety
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if we get something in place that’s poorly targeted, that wastes a bunch of people’s time, what’s going to happen is people are going to say, “See, these safety risks, this is nonsense. I just had to hire 10 lawyers to fill out all these forms.
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