Week 10: What’s Happening in AI
Regulators back in session, AI alignment, molecules-to-aromas, LLMOps, new releases, and more.
Welcome to this week’s edition of What's Happening in AI, covering the latest in policy, responsible AI, and where AI is going for the Responsible Innovation Labs community.
Below: Regulators back in session, AI alignment, molecules-to-aromas, LLMOps, new releases, and more
Policy
Americas:
Governor Newsom signs Executive Order on AI in California (more here)
Senator Cassidy releases paper on AI in health, education, labor (more here)
Prosecutors in every state push to combat AI child exploitation
ICYMI: Musk and Zuckerberg are among the tech execs who will attend Senator Schumer’s first AI forum on September 13
Europe:
5 things to know as the EU Digital Markets Act ramps up (more here)
Report: UK Members of Parliament identify 12 challenges of AI governance
Spain launches AI regulation agency in bid to become industry leader
Britain admits defeat in controversial Online Safety Bill fight
Asia:
Responsible AI
Governance and alignment:
Health and science:
Climate:
Resources:
How to foster belonging and inclusion, with Ellen Pao (Multitudes)
A list of open LLMs available for commercial use (Github Repo)
Belebele: New benchmark for evaluation of massive, multilingual natural language understanding (Meta)
Teaching with AI (OpenAI)
Where AI is going
Society and politics:
Defense:
Information and communication:
The scoop on Gen Z and how they are rewriting the rules of the internet
US Copyright Office’s public comment on AI and copyright opened August 30
Releases and partnerships:
HuggingFace’s Training Cluster as a service
TinyLlama 1.1B parameter project kicked off September 1
Falcon 180B introduced by UAE's Technology Innovation Institute
Baidu launches Ernie chatbot after Chinese government approval
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