Earlier this month, the 2024 Behavioral Science & Policy Association convened a panel at their annual conference to discuss the role behavioral science can play in regulating AI. There are some really flashy AI fears, but the thing I worry about is that if we ignore the genuine reality of how this impacts individuals and groups in society, we’ll end up with, “Oh, we have regulations around transparency,” “We have regulations around explanation,” “We have a focus on being responsible,” but without actually getting into the concrete places where there are genuine harms. For me, the question is: How do we shift away from AI that is easily monetized, that produces a lot of the harms that Kris has talked about, to AI that is actually able to tackle a lot of our most pressing societal problems.