Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Case studies on social-welfare-based standards in various industries, published by Holden Karnofsky on June 20, 2024 on The Effective Altruism Forum.
Last year, I
posted a call for case studies on social-welfare-based standards for companies and products (including standards imposed by regulation). The goal was to gain general context on standards to inform work on possible standards and/or regulation for AI.
This resulted[1] in several dozen case studies that I found informative and helpful. I've been hoping to write up my reflections after reading them all, but it's taken me long enough to get to this that for now I am just publishing a public Google sheet with links to all of the case studies that we have permission to share publicly (including some that already have public links). The link is here:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/18gaTIzdgMvKLq9Cp2-GJZZA7QmE93Frufh1UhNMcbpg/
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Most of the case studies this piece links to were directly paid for via this project, but in some cases the work was pro bono, or someone adapted or sent a copy of work that had been done for another project, etc.
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