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Follow this author to personalize your feed and get instant alerts. Follow Go to your personalized feed WHY FOLLOW? Smart Alerts: Get notified about major news as it happens. Since stepping into the role of U.N. Human Rights Office's first chief of digital technology and human rights earlier this year, Wafa Ben-Hassine has been thinking about ways to better work with decisionmakers on AI. "Instead of just writing endless papers that collect dust, what can we actually do to talk to companies about how they build this technology and to pressure governments to hold them accountable?" asks Wafa Ben-Hassine. "The problem now is that there's such a lack of accountability and a lack of transparency in how the companies operate, and it's just getting worse."

Follow this author to personalize your feed and get instant alerts. Follow Go to your personalized feed WHY FOLLOW? Smart Alerts: Get notified about major news as it happens. When she founded the nonprofit Tech Justice Law in 2023, Meetali Jain did not plan to become the go-to attorney for people suing companies over harm from AI chatbots--but she's also unsurprised it happened. "It was a matter of time, I knew, before some kind of generative AI product was going to harm children," she says.

New York -bestselling thriller author Andrea Bartz struggled for years to hone her writing style and gain success in the literary world. So when she found out in 2023 that pirated versions of her books were being fed into AI systems, allowing them to spit out dozens of pages in her prose style in a matter of seconds, "it was like a gut punch," she says. The New York-based writer fought back by becoming one of the three main plaintiffs (alongside Charles Graeber and Kirk Wallace Johnson) in a class-action lawsuit against Anthropic that accused the company of using stolen works to train its chatbot Claude. Bartz being alphabetically first of the trio, she "got the privilege and the tax of having my name become shorthand" for the legal precedent. Authors whose work was stolen would receive $3,000 for each book.

Follow this author to personalize your feed and get instant alerts. Follow Go to your personalized feed WHY FOLLOW? Smart Alerts: Get notified about major news as it happens. Pillay is an editorial fellow at TIME. Senator Bernie Sanders believes AI and robotics are the most transformative technologies in humanity's history--and that we're not ready for them.

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