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…
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…
Using large language models to promote health equity
Emma Pierson, Divya Shanmugam, Rajiv Movva +12
Advances in large language models (LLMs) have driven an explosion of interest about their societal impacts. Much of the discourse around how they will impact social equity has been…