Opportunities and Challenges of Frontier Data Governance With Synthetic Data

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Main Authors: Thakur, Madhavendra, Hausenloy, Jason
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author Thakur, Madhavendra
Hausenloy, Jason
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Hausenloy, Jason
contents Synthetic data, or data generated by machine learning models, is increasingly emerging as a solution to the data access problem. However, its use introduces significant governance and accountability challenges, and potentially debases existing governance paradigms, such as compute and data governance. In this paper, we identify 3 key governance and accountability challenges that synthetic data poses - it can enable the increased emergence of malicious actors, spontaneous biases and value drift. We thus craft 3 technical mechanisms to address these specific challenges, finding applications for synthetic data towards adversarial training, bias mitigation and value reinforcement. These could not only counteract the risks of synthetic data, but serve as critical levers for governance of the frontier in the future.
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spellingShingle Opportunities and Challenges of Frontier Data Governance With Synthetic Data
Thakur, Madhavendra
Hausenloy, Jason
Computers and Society
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Synthetic data, or data generated by machine learning models, is increasingly emerging as a solution to the data access problem. However, its use introduces significant governance and accountability challenges, and potentially debases existing governance paradigms, such as compute and data governance. In this paper, we identify 3 key governance and accountability challenges that synthetic data poses - it can enable the increased emergence of malicious actors, spontaneous biases and value drift. We thus craft 3 technical mechanisms to address these specific challenges, finding applications for synthetic data towards adversarial training, bias mitigation and value reinforcement. These could not only counteract the risks of synthetic data, but serve as critical levers for governance of the frontier in the future.
title Opportunities and Challenges of Frontier Data Governance With Synthetic Data
topic Computers and Society
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.17414