Helen Toner

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Interim Executive Director at Georgetown University's Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET); former OpenAI board member

Speaks on: AI Governance Policy Regulations AI Policy AI Regulation

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Location: United States

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Mandate 72-hour reporting of critical AI safety incidents to a national authority

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AI systems are being developed entirely within private industry, with little visibility available to Congress or the executive branch. [...] Congress should set transparency requirements for developers of high-stakes AI systems, including requirement...
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Require AI labs to publish safety evaluations before deploying frontier models

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It's truly unprecedented the mismatch between how strategically important this technology is and how little involvement government has in developing it. [...] I think it is very important that the U.S. AI sector remains ahead of the Chinese AI sector...
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Mandate third-party audits for major AI systems

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And they should have to let in external AI auditors to scrutinize their work so that the companies aren't just grading their own homework.
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