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News of the Week: Cate Blanchett Co-founds Non-profit for Addressing Consent Over AI Usage

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On Tuesday, the Oscar-winning actress-producer announced the launch of RSL Media, which promises to allow people to determine how their "identity and creative works" may be used by AI by utilising a traffic light function. The levels are "allowed", "allowed with terms", and "prohibited." "Its mission is to protect human creativity by making "consent, credit and compensation clear, machine-readable and usable at scale." The Blue Jasmine star commented, ”AI technologies are expanding rampantly, essentially unchecked and unregulated.” “In order for humans to remain in front of these technologies, consent must be the first consideration.”

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Australian actress Cate Blanchett has co-founded RSL Media, a non-profit initiative aimed at establishing a standardized 'traffic light' system for machine-readable consent in AI training datasets. This system seeks to regulate how human identity and creative works are harvested by AI models, emphasizing that runaway AI development currently lacks necessary human-centric guardrails. While primarily focused on intellectual property and digital rights, the initiative highlights the broader governance challenge of managing rampantly expanding AI technologies that operate without adequate oversight. The project represents a practical attempt to institutionalize human control over data, which is a foundational requirement for more complex AI safety and alignment frameworks.