Week 11: What’s Happening in AI
Companies make AI commitments at The White House. Plus: AI Insight Forum, EU supercomputer access, AI could reshape governments, 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: EU opens its supercomputers to startups, how AI could reshape governments, and more. First, this week’s big story: The White House secures a second round of voluntary commitments (and news from today’s AI Insight Forum)
Why this matters: In the context of broader regulation efforts, companies leading on AI (ex. Inflection, OpenAI, Microsoft) are working to deliver on these commitments
What's next: Regulatory action from Congress (Schumer, Blumenthal and Hawley, AI transparency hearing), Executive Order (White House, California and other states, agencies, etc.)
Who’s signed: July (Amazon, Anthropic, Google, Inflection, Meta, Microsoft, OpenAI), September (Adobe, Cohere, IBM, Nvidia, Palantir, Salesforce, Scale AI, Stability)
Consider: Role of technology leaders to help shape effective regulation (ex. 20+ executives at AI Insight Forum, Microsoft’s Brad Smith in a Senate hearing this week)
Comments: “Imperative”, “the right next step”, “trust and safety at the center of the most powerful AI systems”, “ongoing collaboration”
Policy
Europe:
EU to let ‘responsible’ AI startups train models on its supercomputers
French lawmaker challenges transatlantic data deal before EU court
Asia:
Global:
How Data Protection Authorities are de facto regulating generative AI
AI regulation around the world (note China’s most recent interim policy)
Recommendation for participation of emerging economies in a global AI summit (US NAIAC)
Responsible AI
Information and data:
Google to require disclosures of AI content in political ads
Amazon to require some authors to disclose the use of AI material
Microsoft’s new commitment and Adobe’s indemnity clause: designed to offer legal protection for AI copyright infringement challenges
Society and alignment:
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman on ChatGPT, Future of AI, AGI, and more
Google pledges $20M for responsible AI grants fund
Brookings on potential challenges and proposals for US AI regulation
ICYMI: Microsoft on India’s AI Opportunity
Privacy, safety, and security:
Generative AI's biggest security flaw, prompt injection, is not easy to fix
How China demands tech firms reveal hackable flaws in their products
ICYMI: 54 Attorneys General call on Congress to study AI and its harmful effects on children
Climate:
Resources:
Digital threats from East Asia increase in breadth and effectiveness (Microsoft)
How to foster belonging and inclusion, with Ellen Pao (Multitudes)
Workshop on responsible and open foundation models (Princeton-Stanford)
Where AI is going
Ethics and humanity:
How the AI revolution will reshape the world (Inflection AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman)
AI and Leviathan: Part III (economist Samuel Hammond)
Autonomous and synthetic:
Compute:
Cerebras CEO Andrew Feldman on the world's largest AI processor
NVIDIA’s TensorRT-LLM supercharges LLM inference on NVIDIA H100 GPUs
Releases, raises, and partnerships:
Releases: Claude Pro (Anthropic), Persimmons-8B (Adept), Intuit Assist, Roblox Assistant, Ant Group's Financial LLM
Raises: Imbue ($200M), D-Matrix ($110M), AI Grant companies – batch 2
Partnerships: India’s Reliance and Nvidia
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