Book contents
- Governing AI
- Governing AI
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 What’s in an Abbreviation? Defining and Understanding AI
- 2 The Quest for Good AI
- 3 When Things Go Wrong
- 4 Technical Solutions to AI Risks and Harms
- 5 AI Ethics as Business Self-Regulation
- 6 Governing AI with Laws and Policies
- 7 Another Way to Govern AI
- Prologue
- Bibliography
- Index
4 - Technical Solutions to AI Risks and Harms
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 February 2026
Book contents
- Governing AI
- Governing AI
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 What’s in an Abbreviation? Defining and Understanding AI
- 2 The Quest for Good AI
- 3 When Things Go Wrong
- 4 Technical Solutions to AI Risks and Harms
- 5 AI Ethics as Business Self-Regulation
- 6 Governing AI with Laws and Policies
- 7 Another Way to Govern AI
- Prologue
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Chapter 4 is devoted to technical solutions to rectify AI risks and harms. AI for social good projects, human-in-the-loop solutions, de-biasing, AI-generated text, image, and voice detection and testing are presented as potential technical fixes. Detecting AI-generated content remains a major challenge. Human-in-the-loop solutions and testing have proven to be such common-sense practices that they are promoted by AI-producing or -using businesses themselves as well as by laws. AI for social good projects and de-biasing produce a positive impact, but there seems to be a gap between expectations and reality. As is documented throughout this book, the roots of AI risks and harms are not technical; therefore, technical solutions cannot bring about transformative change in the face of AI risks and harms.
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- Governing AIA Primer, pp. 73 - 89Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2026
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