Baroness Harding of Winscombe on AI value alignment must be subject to p…

Baroness Harding of Winscombe

Conservative life peer and business executive in the UK House of Lords

It is asking, "What do these models currently do?" It is not asking, "What should they do?" I think we need ethicists, philosophers and social scientists to build that social, moral and then legal framework for this technology, which I would be the first to say I welcome, but, my goodness, we need to decide what we want it to do rather than just wait to find out what it can do.

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AI Systems: Risks - Hansard - UK Parliament

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AI value alignment must be subject to public deliberation, not decided by developers alone

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Require AI labs to publish safety evaluations before deploying frontier models

I genuinely do not think that individual regulators on their own can sort that out. We have to have a proper societal debate about this, and we have the democratic tools to do it. That is not a hurried piece of emergency legislation; it is a proper c...

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