Trade Pacts Should Not Have Special Secrecy Guarantees for Source Code & Algorithms
DANIEL RANGEL, LORI WALLACH / FEB 12, 2024
Policymakers around the world are trying to come up with national and international frameworks to regulate the fast-coming age of artificial intelligence (AI). From the European AI Act to the obscure G-7 Hiroshima Process to burgeoning US state-level proposals to scrutinize social media algorithms to protect children, everyone is attempting to come up with the right approach. Driving this activity is a common awareness that we need guardrails that allow us to seize the benefits of powerful AI systems, while ensuring that this technology does not exacerbate economic or racial inequality, increase corporate concentration, threaten our democracies, and more.