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Former White House advisor Dean W. Ball warns a cybersecurity executive order could let the US secretly force AI labs to degrade model performance

Classified regulations would bypass First Amendment litigation risks.

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Consider that the government, with a classified regulatory system for AI (as the recent cyber EO tees up) could secretly force AI labs to silently degrade performance in a wide range of domains without *that* much risk of First Amendment litigation.

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Consider that the government, with a classified regulatory system for AI (as the recent cyber EO tees up) could secretly force AI labs to silently degrade performance in a wide range of domains without *that* much risk of First Amendment litigation.

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