February 8, 2025
Industry stalwart: End of AI ‘kill switch’ debate makes way for data transparency issue
Now that proponents of open-source artificial intelligence models have emerged clear victors in a year-long debate about whether a “kill switch” is necessary to mitigate risks of rogue AI, policymakers should move on to regulating issues like training-data transparency with the appropriate sector-by-sector approach, according to a senior IBM representative.
At the end of a literal Oxford-style debate Politico hosted Jan. 23 in Davos on the idea of AI developers being required to implement emergency shutdown mechanisms to avert...