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Generating Harms: Generative AI's Impact & Paths Forward
webEPIC's May 2023 white paper catalogues harms from generative AI systems and proposes regulatory and policy paths forward, relevant to AI governance and safety discussions around large language models and their societal impacts.
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Published by the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) in May 2023, this white paper examines the harms caused by generative AI systems across privacy, civil rights, and democratic values. It analyzes impact pathways and proposes concrete policy and regulatory responses to mitigate these harms.
Key Points
- •Identifies and categorizes harms from generative AI including privacy violations, misinformation, discrimination, and threats to democratic processes.
- •Proposes regulatory and legislative paths forward to hold AI developers and deployers accountable.
- •Focuses on consumer and civil rights protections, reflecting EPIC's advocacy mission.
- •Published in May 2023, situating it in early public discourse around ChatGPT and large language model proliferation.
- •Represents a civil society perspective on AI governance, complementing technical and governmental analyses.
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