A GUARDRAIL FOR AI

Who controls the AI world?

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According to Meredith Whittaker, president of Signal Foundation, the nonprofit that runs Signal Messenger, the answer to that question must go back to the 1990s when the Internet was born out of American university and government infrastructure that slowly went over to private companies without guardrails. At the India Today conclave, she spoke about how the companies at the forefront of AI development today are the same ones who started the Internet revolution, giving them extraordinary leeway over our future. They have “the authority to tell our stories for us, to define us, our reality, our worlds, in ways tha