Following yesterday’s Present Authorized Issues Lecture, I’ve uploaded the present full draft of the paper on SSRN. I’d be very grateful for any feedback within the subsequent few weeks, as I plan to do a remaining revision and to submit it for peer-review in early 2024. Thanks prematurely for individuals who take the time. As all the time, you’ll be able to attain me at a.sanchez-graells@bristol.ac.uk.
The summary of the paper is as follows:
Right here, I give attention to the UK’s method to regulating public sector procurement and use of synthetic intelligence (AI) within the context of the broader ‘pro-innovation’ method to AI regulation. Borrowing from the outline of AI ‘hallucinations’ as believable however incorrect solutions given with excessive confidence by AI programs, I argue that UK policymaking is trapped in a ‘regulatory hallucination.’ Regardless of having embraced the believable ‘pro-innovation’ regulatory method with excessive confidence, that’s the incorrect reply to the problem of regulating AI procurement and use by the general public sector. I conceptualise the present technique as one in every of ‘regulation by contract’ and establish two of its underpinning presumptions that make its deployment within the digital context significantly difficult. I present how neither the presumption of superiority of the general public purchaser over the general public contractor, nor the associated presumption that the general public purchaser is the rule-maker and the general public contractor is the rule-taker, essentially maintain on this context. Public purchaser superiority is undermined by the two-sided gatekeeping required to concurrently self-discipline the behaviour of the general public sector AI person and the tech supplier. The general public purchaser’s rule-making position can also be undermined by its reliance on industry-led requirements, in addition to by the tech supplier’s higher hand in setting contractual benchmarks and controlling the following self-assessments. In view of the ineffectiveness of regulating public sector AI use by contract, I then sketch another technique to spice up the effectiveness of the targets of AI regulation and the safety of particular person rights and collective pursuits by means of the creation of an unbiased authority.
Sanchez-Graells, Albert, ‘Responsibly Shopping for Synthetic Intelligence: A “Regulatory Hallucination”’ (November 24, 2023). Present Authorized Issues 2023-24, Out there at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/summary=4643273.
