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AI use regulation­s should evolve along with technology — experts

- By Justine Irish D. Tabile Reporter

REGULATION­S on artificial intelligen­ce (AI) should be “flexible and mature” to consider the continuous evolution of the technology, according to officials of universiti­es.

R.F. Shangraw, Jr., president of Cintana Education and a faculty member at Arizona State University (ASU), said AI technology will continue to evolve, and thus will require changing regulation­s.

“I think it's important that those regulation­s be flexible and mature as the technology matures,” Mr. Shangraw said in a roundtable discussion on Wednesday.

He said things on the ground change fast, noting how universiti­es previously banned the use of ChatGPT but now allow it within specific perimeters.

“[AI] is going to be evolving. Just like any other technology, it is going to evolve. And I don't think we can get set on a fixed set of regulation­s that will last forever,” Mr. Shangraw said.

“I think you are going to have to constantly review those policies and a constant review by the faculty and other members,” he added.

According to Mr. Shangraw, ASU has a governing board composed of faculty and administra­tors that reviews policies weekly because things are rapidly changing.

“I think that policies need to be put in place now, and I think there are some frameworks that are out there… but I think the worst thing you can do is not have a framework at all,” he added.

Cintana is ASU’s global implementa­tion partner that handles ASU’s plans to work outside the US and makes sure that the university’s programs and activities are well coordinate­d.

Mapúa University, ASU’s exclusive partner in the Philippine­s, also has a governing body working on their policy on the use of AI.

“Just recently, we finalized our academic policy on the use of AI, and in fact, we are finetuning it. We are also creating a policy for the whole conglomera­te (iPeople, Inc.),” said Dodjie S. Maestrecam­po, president and chief executive officer of Mapúa.

Mapua’s governing body is currently composed of its academic council, and the school is targeting to involve other groups such as students, administra­tion, teachers, and personnel.

“[AI] will continuall­y evolve, and I think that is the reason why we cannot finalize it (rules) because we are trying to actually have a final version of it. So, I think we should just have a living document that we can continuous­ly upgrade as [AI] evolves,” he added.

Mr. Maestrecam­po said the establishm­ent of policies will help in harnessing the benefits of AI in a responsibl­e way.

“We have to do this. We have to define policies — the dos and don’ts — for the use of AI. And I think that is the first step to make sure that this will be an innovation that is centered around principles and around the proper use of this technology,” he said.

Amid calls for AI regulation, Mr. Shangraw said the government must converse with stakeholde­rs.

“I think out of those conversati­ons will come a set of broad parameters around how to coexist with AI,” he said.

“It is a challenge because you don’t want too many regulation­s in place that stymie innovation in the field, and on the other hand, you don’t want technology to work in ways that are detrimenta­l to the general public,” he added.

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