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   "text": "Because it lacks anticipatory rulemaking capability, the existing regulatory system addresses issues only ex post, and only once they have materialized and burdened core constituents enough to generate political pressure on lawmakers.",
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   "text": "Facts based, ex post, trial and error rulemaking cannot anticipate the regulatory issues created by innovation, so rulemakers may never recognize, or may recognize only much too late, which new regulatory demands apply to a given innovation.",
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   "text": "Conventional governance methods that are reactive or fixed to ex-post solutions are insufficient for governing technologies whose behavior changes continuously after deployment.",
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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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