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What the executive order means for openness in AI

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Good news on paper, but the devil is in the details

By Arvind Narayanan, Sayash Kapoor, and Rishi Bommasani. The Biden-Harris administration has issued an executive order on artificial intelligence. It is about 20,000 words long and tries to address the entire range of AI benefits and risks. It is likely to shape every aspect of the future of AI, including openness: Will it remain possible to publicly release model weights while complying with the EO’s requirements? How will the EO affect the concentration of power and resources in AI? What about the culture of open research? We cataloged the space of AI-related policies that might impact…

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