The teleonomic moment (Agency and policy II)

In many ways ChatGPT was less of a technical breakthrough than a user interface breakthrough. By organising and configuring the capabilities of the model in a novel way - chat - the implications of the underlying technology became more accessible and open to analysis and understanding. This seems to suggest that we should be interested… Continue reading The teleonomic moment (Agency and policy II)

Some policy problems in artificial agency (Agency and policy I)

A further step in understanding the challenges artificial intelligence will pose for public policy and regulation is understanding the role, construction and problems of artificial agency of different kinds. The models we are discussing today are mostly prompted in different ways, and so are in a way easy to regulate, since they only do what… Continue reading Some policy problems in artificial agency (Agency and policy I)