Aziz Huq Writes That 2024 Will See Regulation in AI
The AI Trends That Will Define Society and Political Economy in 2024
Three artificial intelligence experts at the University of Chicago discuss the AI trends and issues they’ll be watching for in 2024.
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Aziz Huq, Frank and Bernice J. Greenberg Professor of Law
At least since the invention of the backpropagation algorithm in the 1990s, modern AI and the circulation of data upon which it rests has been only loosely regulated: The result has been an efflorescence of start-ups, putatively killer apps, and unicorns. The state, of course, has never been wholly absent—as a funder, a client, and silent partner. But as a regulator it has been most notable by its silence.
This impression has been somewhat misleading for a while now, and 2024 will reveal that regulation is already here and getting thicker and more consequential. This is so even if the most hotly debated efforts to force AI developers to account for spillover harms, such as bias and privacy invasions, have yet to have much practical effect. For these efforts are also perhaps the least consequential. For if the regulatory landscape truly changes, it will be because of more subtle, tectonic shifts.
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