AI policy must fail gracefully - by Nat Purser
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The conditions under which AI policy will operate over the next decades are unlikely to match those in which it was introduced.
In systems engineering, the concept of graceful degradation describes how a well-designed system behaves when components fail — like how an airplane lands when an engine dies. It’s also a useful frame for institutional design. How do we engineer governance that functions well even when some of its most critical organs fail? In AI policy, one of the most fundamental assumptions is that the executive branch will be the institutional home for technical capacity, implementation, and oversight. Some of that is simply extrapolation based on recent AI governance: The Biden administration’s AI…
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