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New Poll: Voters Prefer AI Regulation that Mandates Safety Measures Over Industry Self-Regulation [1]
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Date: 2024-06-13 16:47:56+00:00
An overwhelming majority of American voters prefer regulation that mandates safety testing of frontier AI systems and government oversight to certify new AI models, while 24% prefer a non-restrictive approach.
After being informed of the Senate AI Roadmap priorities and asked to rank their priorities in order, 67% of voters, the highest share, prefer monitoring to prevent AI from falling into the hands of our adversaries.
More than three-fourths of voters support federal regulation of AI that mandates safety measures and government oversight of AI labs instead of allowing AI companies to self-regulate, a new poll by the Artificial Intelligence Policy Institute (AIPI) shows.
When presented with four high level approaches to AI governance, 80% of voters prefer a public policy approach that mandates security standards and safety measures for AI systems’ most advanced models. This approach would allow the release of new AI models only after a government oversight board certifies that companies properly account for extreme risks, including the prevention of using AI to create bioweapons and launch cyber attacks. The question forced voters to choose between varying approaches to AI regulation, from pausing the technology as a whole to letting companies freely develop the technology.
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[1] Url:
https://theaipi.org/april-voters-prefer-ai-regulation-over-self-regulation/
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