2024 Flagship Conference | Global Fractures in Tech Policy | Regulation & Artificial Intelligence

WilmerHale/Silicon Flatirons Writing Award
Winner: Kimberly Fry, JD Candidate, Colorado Law
Awarded by: Ben Fernandez, Partner, WilmerHale

Panel Discussion: Regulation & Artificial Intelligence
Harry Surden — Moderator | Professor of Law, University of Colorado Law School
Scott Deutchman — Senior Policy Advisor, Government Affairs & Public Policy, Google
Beverley Hatcher-Mbu — Deputy Director of Programs, Development Gateway: An IREX Venture
Cameron F. Kerry — Ann R. and Andrew H. Tisch Distinguished Visiting Fellow, Brookings Governance Studies and the Center for Technology Innovation
Paul Ohm — Professor of Law; Chief Data Officer, Georgetown University Law Center
Bhavna Thakur — Chief Operating Officer, Tifin India

What is the path forward with respect to whether and how to regulate artificial intelligence? This panel will examine whether a proposal to separate the phases of developing large language models. In particular, Professor Paul Ohm argues that it is useful to distinguish a pretraining phase from a fine-tuning phase. His argument is that fine-tuning is the better phase for interventions from law and policy, and we should generally let the companies have more leeway during pretraining.