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The Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/video/washington-post-live/wplive/obermeyer-says-government-regulation-of-ai-wouldnt-stop-creative-or-dangerous-uses/2021/01/13/2128ae3b-fcf6-439d-8aba-761a97507b47_video.html
January 14, 2021
In this video piece from the Washington Post, Ziad Obermeyer, professor of health policy and management at the UC Berkeley School of Public Health, said government regulation of artificial intelligence can have a positive impact, but it can't get ahead of the "many creative and potentially dangerous uses that people are going to put algorithms toward...In a lot of our work what we've found is there is a substantial amount of racial bias in algorithms that are fairly widespread...that's the kind of thing that certainly suggests a role for regulation."