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Podcast: Machine Learning Street Talk (MLST)
Episode: Sara Hooker - Why US AI Act Compute Thresholds Are Misguided
Description: Sara Hooker is VP of Research at Cohere and leader of Cohere for AI. We discuss her recent paper critiquing the use of compute thresholds, measured in FLOPs (floating point operations), as an AI governance strategy.
We explore why this approach, recently adopted in both US and EU AI policies, may be problematic and oversimplified. Sara explains the limitations of using raw computational power as a measure of AI capability or risk, and discusses the complex relationship between compute, data, and model architecture.
Equally important, we go into Sara's...