5 papers
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…
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…
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…
What Constitutes a Less Discriminatory Algorithm?
Benjamin Laufer, Manish Raghavan, Solon Barocas
Disparate impact doctrine offers an important legal apparatus for targeting discriminatory data-driven algorithmic decisions. A recent body of work has focused on conceptualizing o…
Fine-Tuning Games: Bargaining and Adaptation for General-Purpose Models
Benjamin Laufer, Jon Kleinberg, Hoda Heidari
Recent advances in Machine Learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) follow a familiar structure: A firm releases a large, pretrained model. It is designed to be adapted and t…