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

• UK’s Frontier AI Taskforce announces its advisory board

• French lawmaker challenges transatlantic data deal before EU court

Asia:

• Shenzhen to open specific sections of city highways for autonomous vehicle trials

Global:

• G7 countries commit to AI code of conduct

• 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:

• AI technology behind ChatGPT was built in Iowa — with a lot of water

• Apple unveils its first carbon neutral products

Resources:

• Two real-life examples of why limiting permissions works: Lessons from AWS’ Customer Incident Response Team (AWS)

• 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)

• What if AI treats humans the way we treat animals? (Vox)

Autonomous and synthetic:

• Learning to let go (of the wheel)

• Meet 'PIBOT,' the robot who can fly planes

• AI voices are taking over the internet

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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