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Corralling AI Risks with Grassroots Contracts

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The paper "Corralling AI Risks with Grassroots Contracts" identifies three major AI risks affecting digital platforms: (1) AI control of global platforms, (2) unaccountable AI agents operating alongside humans, and (3) unattributed deepfakes. It proposes grassroots contracts—digital agreements inspired by Pierre‑Joseph Proudhon—to mitigate these risks by establishing accountability for AI agents in social graphs and ensuring digital provenance in social networks. The authors also present smartphone applications that implement these contracts and demonstrate how they address the identified risks.

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