Inside AI Policy

February 8, 2025

Industry stalwart: End of AI ‘kill switch’ debate makes way for data transparency issue

By Mariam Baksh / January 27, 2025

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...


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