Massachusetts Can Lead the Way to Tackle AI’s Biggest Risks

We don’t have time to waste, given how fast the technology is developing.

Mark Reddish, Bahrad Sokhansanj

This piece was originally published in The New Bedford Light.

As we’ve seen rapid advancements in AI, government oversight of the technology is falling behind. In July, OpenAI agents became so sophisticated that they could escape an internal sandbox and breach the digital infrastructure of another company, Hugging Face.

Authors

Mark Reddish

Mark is a Senior Research Scholar on LawAI's US Law and Policy team. He has more than a decade of experience in government affairs and policy development related to technology, telecommunications, and public safety.

mark.reddish@law-ai.org

Bahrad Sokhansanj

Bahrad Sokhansanj is a Senior Research Fellow at LawAI, where his work focuses on U.S. law and policy for AI governance, with emphasis on AI systems that interact with biological data or biological design capabilities, AI-biosecurity, and intellectual property issues arising in AI safety and regulatory regimes.

bahrad.sokhansanj@law-ai.org

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