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Boston's push to lead in AI raises safety and ethics questions

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The Daily Free Press reported on Massachusetts's effort to become a national AI leader through the state's AI Hub and startup programs such as The Open Accelerator, and on the oversight questions that growth has raised. Gov. Maura Healey called for stronger federal guardrails and independent oversight of AI. Seth Villegas, a Faculty of Computing and Data Sciences lecturer who studies technology ethics, said AI agents could pose greater risks than large language models alone. The piece shows BU students how Boston's AI policy debate is taking shape.

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