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The merits of compute thresholds as a governance mechanism for AI

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Mahdi Assan
Aug 02, 2024
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TL;DR

This newsletter is about a paper by Sara Hooker, a machine learning researcher and lead at Cohere AI, titled 'On the Limitations of Compute Thresholds as a Governance Strategy'. It looks the arguments presented in the paper on the drawbacks compute thresholds as a mechanism for AI governance, as found in the EU's AI Act.

Here are the key takeaways:

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