4 papers
Anatomy of a Machine Learning Ecosystem: 2 Million Models on Hugging Face
Benjamin Laufer, Hamidah Oderinwale, Jon Kleinberg
Many have observed that the development and deployment of generative machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) models follow a distinctive pattern in which pre-trained…
Modeling the Economic Impacts of AI Openness Regulation
Tori Qiu, Benjamin Laufer, Jon Kleinberg +1
Regulatory frameworks, such as the EU AI Act, encourage openness of general-purpose AI models by offering legal exemptions for "open-source" models. Despite this legislative attent…
Designing Algorithmic Delegates: The Role of Indistinguishability in Human-AI Handoff
Sophie Greenwood, Karen Levy, Solon Barocas +2
As AI technologies improve, people are increasingly willing to delegate tasks to AI agents. In many cases, the human decision-maker chooses whether to delegate to an AI agent based…
The Backfiring Effect of Weak AI Safety Regulation
Benjamin Laufer, Jon Kleinberg, Hoda Heidari
Recent policy proposals aim to improve the safety of general-purpose AI, but there is little understanding of the efficacy of different regulatory approaches to AI safety. We prese…