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Peter Henderson

PhD Student in Computer Science; JD Candidate, Stanford Law School; AI Fellow, OpenPhilanthropy; Graduate Fellow, Regulation, Evaluation, and Governance Lab, Stanford University

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Safeguarding Third-Party AI Research
Kevin Klyman, Shayne Longpre, Sayash Kapoor, Peter Henderson, Rishi Bommasani, Percy Liang
Feb 13
policy brief
Safeguarding third-party AI research

This brief examines the barriers to independent AI evaluation and proposes safe harbors to protect good-faith third-party research.

Safety Risks from Customizing Foundation Models via Fine-Tuning
Pin-Yu Chen, Ruoxi Jia, Tinghao Xie, Xiangyu Qi, Yi Zeng, Prateek Mittal, Peter Henderson
Jan 08
policy brief

This brief underscores the safety risks inherent in custom fine-tuning of large language models.

By the Numbers: Tracking The AI Executive Order
Peter Henderson, Rishi Bommasani, Lindsey A. Gailmard, Christie M. Lawrence, Rohini Kosoglu, Daniel E. Ho, Daniel Zhang, Caroline Meinhardt, Russell Wald
Nov 16
news

New Stanford tracker analyzes the 150 requirements of the White House Executive Order on AI and offers new insights into government priorities.

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By the Numbers: Tracking The AI Executive Order
Peter Henderson, Rishi Bommasani, Lindsey A. Gailmard, Christie M. Lawrence, Rohini Kosoglu, Daniel E. Ho, Daniel Zhang, Caroline Meinhardt, Russell Wald
Nov 16, 2023
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New Stanford tracker analyzes the 150 requirements of the White House Executive Order on AI and offers new insights into government priorities.

By the Numbers: Tracking The AI Executive Order

Peter Henderson, Rishi Bommasani, Lindsey A. Gailmard, Christie M. Lawrence, Rohini Kosoglu, Daniel E. Ho, Daniel Zhang, Caroline Meinhardt, Russell Wald
Nov 16, 2023

New Stanford tracker analyzes the 150 requirements of the White House Executive Order on AI and offers new insights into government priorities.

Regulation, Policy, Governance
Government, Public Administration
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Decoding the White House AI Executive Order’s Achievements
Peter Henderson, Rishi Bommasani, Lindsey A. Gailmard, Christie M. Lawrence, Daniel E. Ho, Daniel Zhang, Caroline Meinhardt, Russell Wald
Nov 02, 2023
news

America is ready again to lead on AI—and it won’t just be American companies shaping the AI landscape if the White House has anything to say about it.

Decoding the White House AI Executive Order’s Achievements

Peter Henderson, Rishi Bommasani, Lindsey A. Gailmard, Christie M. Lawrence, Daniel E. Ho, Daniel Zhang, Caroline Meinhardt, Russell Wald
Nov 02, 2023

America is ready again to lead on AI—and it won’t just be American companies shaping the AI landscape if the White House has anything to say about it.

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Can Foundation Models Be Safe When Adversaries Can Customize Them?
Peter Henderson
Nov 02, 2023
news

Researchers show that ChatGPT can be jailbroken with only 20 cents, but they are working on making this more difficult with “self-destructing models.”

Can Foundation Models Be Safe When Adversaries Can Customize Them?

Peter Henderson
Nov 02, 2023

Researchers show that ChatGPT can be jailbroken with only 20 cents, but they are working on making this more difficult with “self-destructing models.”

Machine Learning
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Decoding the White House AI Executive Order’s Achievements
Peter Henderson, Rishi Bommasani, Lindsey A. Gailmard, Christie M. Lawrence, Daniel E. Ho, Daniel Zhang, Caroline Meinhardt, Russell Wald
Nov 02, 2023
explainer
Your browser does not support the video tag.

America is ready again to lead on AI—and it won’t just be American companies shaping the AI landscape if the White House has anything to say about it.

Decoding the White House AI Executive Order’s Achievements

Peter Henderson, Rishi Bommasani, Lindsey A. Gailmard, Christie M. Lawrence, Daniel E. Ho, Daniel Zhang, Caroline Meinhardt, Russell Wald
Nov 02, 2023

America is ready again to lead on AI—and it won’t just be American companies shaping the AI landscape if the White House has anything to say about it.

Government, Public Administration
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Foundation Models and Copyright Questions
Xuechen Li, Peter Henderson, Mark A. Lemley, Dan Jurafsky, Tatsunori Hashimoto, Percy Liang
Nov 02, 2023
policy brief

Foundation models are often trained on large volumes of copyrighted material. In the United States, AI researchers have long relied on fair use doctrine to avoid copyright issues with training data. However, our U.S. case law analysis in this brief highlights that fair use is not guaranteed for foundation models and that the risk of copyright infringement is real, though the exact extent remains uncertain. We argue that the United States needs a two-pronged approach to addressing these copyright issues—a mix of legal and technical mitigations that will allow us to harness the positive impact of foundation models while reducing intellectual property harms to creators.

Foundation Models and Copyright Questions

Xuechen Li, Peter Henderson, Mark A. Lemley, Dan Jurafsky, Tatsunori Hashimoto, Percy Liang
Nov 02, 2023

Foundation models are often trained on large volumes of copyrighted material. In the United States, AI researchers have long relied on fair use doctrine to avoid copyright issues with training data. However, our U.S. case law analysis in this brief highlights that fair use is not guaranteed for foundation models and that the risk of copyright infringement is real, though the exact extent remains uncertain. We argue that the United States needs a two-pronged approach to addressing these copyright issues—a mix of legal and technical mitigations that will allow us to harness the positive impact of foundation models while reducing intellectual property harms to creators.

Foundation Models
Regulation, Policy, Governance
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Who Is Liable When Generative AI Says Something Harmful?
Peter Henderson
Oct 11, 2023
news

Courts will have to grapple with this new challenge, although scholars believe much of generative AI will be protected by the First Amendment.

Who Is Liable When Generative AI Says Something Harmful?

Peter Henderson
Oct 11, 2023

Courts will have to grapple with this new challenge, although scholars believe much of generative AI will be protected by the First Amendment.

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Law, Policy, & AI Update: Does Section 230 Cover Generative AI?
Peter Henderson
Mar 23, 2023
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Meanwhile, the FTC tells AI companies to be careful with their hype, and class action lawsuits follow for unauthorized practice of law by AI.

Law, Policy, & AI Update: Does Section 230 Cover Generative AI?

Peter Henderson
Mar 23, 2023

Meanwhile, the FTC tells AI companies to be careful with their hype, and class action lawsuits follow for unauthorized practice of law by AI.

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Law, Policy, & AI Update: China Requires AI Watermarks, ChatGPT Won’t Make it to U.S. Courtrooms
Peter Henderson
Feb 06, 2023
news

And last year’s trickle of AI-related court cases now looks more like a surge.

Law, Policy, & AI Update: China Requires AI Watermarks, ChatGPT Won’t Make it to U.S. Courtrooms

Peter Henderson
Feb 06, 2023

And last year’s trickle of AI-related court cases now looks more like a surge.

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Law, Policy, & AI Update: Killer Robots, Rent Lawsuit
Peter Henderson
Dec 12, 2022
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The San Francisco Police Department requests to use robots with deadly force, new complaints filed alleging algorithmic discrimination, and more.

Law, Policy, & AI Update: Killer Robots, Rent Lawsuit

Peter Henderson
Dec 12, 2022

The San Francisco Police Department requests to use robots with deadly force, new complaints filed alleging algorithmic discrimination, and more.

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Law, Policy, & AI Update: Github Lawsuit, China & Chips
Peter Henderson
Nov 09, 2022
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The U.S. continues to ramp up export controls on chips (and maybe soon AI), the first lawsuit is filed for software piracy, and more.

Law, Policy, & AI Update: Github Lawsuit, China & Chips

Peter Henderson
Nov 09, 2022

The U.S. continues to ramp up export controls on chips (and maybe soon AI), the first lawsuit is filed for software piracy, and more.

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The Law, Policy, & AI Briefing: September 2022
Peter Henderson
Oct 04, 2022
news

The Texas social media law moves forward, TikTok agrees to audits, and an EU proposal causes controversy over open-source models.

The Law, Policy, & AI Briefing: September 2022

Peter Henderson
Oct 04, 2022

The Texas social media law moves forward, TikTok agrees to audits, and an EU proposal causes controversy over open-source models.

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