Stephen Casper on incident-driven AI politics and a looming 'governance overhang'
StephenLCasper · x · 2026-10-22
At a recent event, AI researcher Stephen Casper discussed the incident-driven nature of AI politics and argued we may currently be experiencing a 'governance overhang' — a mismatch between the stock of proposed regulation and the actual pace of technical progress.
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