Artificial intelligence (AI) offers boundless promises while also presenting critical challenges to civilization. Placing responsible guardrails around AI development, deployment, and use will enable cutting-edge innovation and provide privacy, transparency, accountability, and protect human dignity.
Key points:
- Humanity is at an inflection point. Artificial intelligence (AI) offers boundless promises while also presenting critical challenges to civilization.
- AI as a field is replete with technical components that must be neatly defined and understood to legislate prudently—both in terms of the enforceability and scope of public policy.
- AI applications—and their potential benefits and risks—vary from sector-to-sector. This paper provides numerous case studies to illustrate how AI is being used and its impacts on healthcare, law enforcement, national security, kids’ online safety, education, finance, and more.
- Industry and legislators must balance technological innovation with utmost respect for human dignity, privacy, transparency, and accountability. Ultimately, light-touch, values-driven, state-based, legislative guardrails for AI are necessary to propel humanity forward.
The authors would like to thank Greyson Gee, Hannah Bruck, and Liam Blank for their contributions to this paper.