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Frontier AI Safety & Policy Panel: Where We're at & Where We're Headed – Perspectives from the UK

It's been around a year since chatbots became widespread and governments worldwide turned their attention to advanced AI safety and governance. In this event co-hosted by MIT CSAIL Alliances, the MIT-UK program and the UK government’s AI Safety Institute, we will discuss the current state of research and where we're headed. Questions to be answered include: How will we control and govern AI agents?

 

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“Personhood credentials allow you to prove you are human without revealing anything else about your identity,” says Tobin South (Credits: MIT News; iStock).
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As artificial intelligence agents become more advanced, it could become increasingly difficult to distinguish between AI-powered users and real humans on the internet. In a new white paper, researchers from MIT, OpenAI, Microsoft, and other tech companies and academic institutions propose the use of personhood credentials, a verification technique that enables someone to prove they are a real human online, while preserving their privacy.

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alt="A new technique could help people determine whether to trust an AI model’s predictions (Image: MIT News; iStock)."
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Because machine-learning models can give false predictions, researchers often equip them with the ability to tell a user how confident they are about a certain decision. This is especially important in high-stake settings, such as when models are used to help identify disease in medical images or filter job applications.