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   "text": "Ex-post governance, which applies regulation only after AI systems are developed and deployed or after large language models have been pretrained on existing proprietary datasets, fails to address risks and biases preemptively.",
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   "text": "Encoding compliance and operational procedures in smart contracts removes discretionary human steps from execution, which minimizes human error and bias and raises the reliability and integrity of economic interactions.",
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   "text": "The centralized frameworks used by the leading annotation companies, including Scale AI, Appen, Hive, V7 Labs, CloudFactory, and Sama, carry theoretical and practical shortcomings around bias, ethical sourcing, and data diversity that undermine the equitability and generalizability of the resulting AI models.",
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   "text": "Regulation of legal AI faces a two sided failure: strict regimes such as the EU AI Act may stifle innovation, while lenient approaches such as the United States risk leaving biases unchecked.",
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   "text": "AI's limitations in replicating human empathy together with the persistent risk of bias make a hybrid approach necessary, in which AI efficiency complements rather than substitutes for human discretion.",
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   "text": "Decentralized dispute resolution relies on decentralized networks of jurors, which raises unresolved concerns about juror competence and bias.",
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