OII | Large Language Models pose a risk to society and need tighter regulation, say Oxford researchers

Written by
Sandra Wachter, Brent Mittelstadt and Chris Russell    

Leading experts in regulation and ethics at the Oxford Internet Institute, part of the University of Oxford, have identified a new type of harm created by LLMs which they believe poses long-term risks to democratic societies and needs to be addressed

Large Language Models pose a risk to society and need tighter regulation, say Oxford researchers

Leading experts in regulation and ethics at the Oxford Internet Institute, part of the University of Oxford, have identified a new type of harm created by LLMs which they believe poses long-term risks to democratic societies and needs to be addressed by creating a new legal duty for LLM providers.

In their new paper ‘Do large language models have a legal duty to tell the truth?’, published by the Royal Society Open Science, the Oxford researchers set out how LLMs produce responses that are plausible, helpful and confident but contain factual inaccuracies, misleading references and biased information.  They term this problematic phenomenon as ‘careless speech’ which they believe causes long-term harms to science, education and society.

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