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In democracies, conflicts about AI regulation will transcend technical disagreements; they will also provoke value-laden disagreements about how society regulates values and practices that may initially seem to implicate “private” decisions about speech or association that obviously shape what people value.
President, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Mariano-Florentino (Tino) Cuéllar is the tenth president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. A former justice of the Supreme Court of California, he has served three U.S. presidential administrations at the White House and in federal agencies, and was the Stanley Morrison Professor at Stanford University, where he held appointments in law, political science, and international affairs and led the university’s Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies.
Aziz Z. Huq
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