Is there a right way to regulate AI? (w. Helen Toner)

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🗓️ 21 August 2024

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

What is the right way to regulate AI? There appears to be as many different answers to that as there are regulators. On today's episode of Equity, we're bringing you a live interview from TechCrunch's recent Strictly VC event. Equity co-host Becca Szkutak sat down with Helen Toner, the director of strategy and foundational research grants from the Center of Security and Emerging Technology and a former board member of OpenAI. The pair discussed companies' ability to self-regulate, what impact regulation could have on startup innovation and so much more.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome back to Equity Tech Crenches flagship
0:14.2	podcast about the business of startups. I'm Mary Ann Asavado and this is our
0:18.3	Wednesday episode where we hone in on a trend in the startup world and dive
0:22.0	deep.
0:23.1	This week we're doing something a little different.
0:25.3	We're bringing you a conversation from this year's Strictly VC event in Washington, D.C.
0:29.5	where Becca Scutat got the chance to chat with Helen Toner about AI and regulation.
0:33.7	Toner is the Director of Strategy and Foundational Research grants at the Center for
0:37.8	Security and Emerging Technology, but you might know her as a former board member
0:41.7	at Open AI. Let's take a listen.
0:46.0	Perfect. Well, we've got a lot to talk about today. Similar topics, what we've already
0:51.5	been kind of chatting with with other guests,
0:53.4	say AI regulation, say that five times fast and policy, but I think one question to start
1:00.5	that I've been wanting to ask you in particular for no specific reason can a company
1:05.5	regulate itself when it comes to AI? I mean it's a bit of a setup isn't it? I mean I've
1:11.0	wrote in the economist a couple weeks ago but I think the answer is essentially no and I think especially for AI companies that are
1:17.6	aiming to build extremely advanced AI technology so not just you know a particular app for a particular sector,
1:23.0	but companies that are aiming to build
1:25.1	artificial general intelligence as they are otherwise
1:27.6	really seeking to build highly general purpose,
1:29.6	highly powerful technologies.
1:31.7	I think that is a really ambitious endeavor and one that deserves a lot of scrutiny and one that it deserves a lot of participation and engagement from a broad range of stakeholders.
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