Week 14: What’s Happening in AI
RILabs engages government and VCs on Responsible AI Commitments. Resources by YC, Anthropic. Founders on synthetic bio, national security, 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: Can LLMs work together well? New resources from YC, Anthropic. VCs and experts shape responsible AI guidelines for startups. Founders on synthetic biology, national security, human relationships, more. EU regulation and compliance. AI’s carbon footprint.
Policy
Americas:
Responsible Innovation Labs co-founder Hemant Taneja and U.S. Department of Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo describe collaboration on responsible AI with a cross-sector coalition of VCs and experts at Fortune’s CEO Initiative (more here and here). RIL will be sharing more about this work with our community in the coming weeks.
Microsoft CEO testifies on limits of AI in Google’s antitrust trial
Conversations with Senators Young, Markey, and Warner at POLITICO’s AI & Tech Summit
Europe:
UK to pitch new ‘AI Safety Institute’ to allies at upcoming AI Summit (more here)
Google agrees to reform its data terms after German antitrust intervention
TikTok tests an ad-free subscription tier and Meta plans similarly in response to EU’s DSA
Uber still dragging its feet on algorithmic transparency in GDPR, Dutch court finds
More:
Responsible AI
Safety and alignment:
NIST, DeepMind General Counsel, Rep. Lieu re: can you believe in machines?
Google is opening up its generative AI search experience to teenagers
Sciences and health:
When AI and genomics collide with Insitro founder Daphne Koller
Scaling synthetic biology with Ginkgo Bioworks co-founder Jason Kelly
Information:
Climate:
Security and defense:
Identity and data:
AI bias tests gloss over a crucial aspect of skin color, Sony research claims
Meta said it's been using your public Instagram photos and Facebook posts to train its AI
Resources:
GenAI founder matching meet-up (Y Combinator)
Challenges in evaluating AI systems prompt (Anthropic)
Engineering for Claude’s long context window (Anthropic)
Where AI is going
Capabilities:
‘Can LLM agents work together well?’, collaboration mechanisms explored in new paper
Bumble founder Whitney Wolfe Herd on AI in matchmaking at Code 2023
Why the future of video is synthetic with Synthesia co-founder Victor Riparbelli
SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son says AGI will come within 10 years
Autonomous and smart:
Google DeepMind on scaling up learning across many different robot types (more here)
'The Android of agriculture': The future of farming with Monarch Tractor founder Praveen Penmetsa
Scaling GAIA-1: 9-billion parameter generative world model for autonomous driving
Economics and competition:
Brookings says without intervention, GenAI jobs will continue to cluster in the big tech hubs
GPU shortage, AI regulation, and Nvidia competition with AMD CEO Lisa Su
Bing's quest to beat Google and the future of AI art with Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott
Releases and raises:
Releases: Perplexity’s pplx-api, Canva’s Magic Studio, Zoom Docs, Meta’s Quest 3 and advertising features, Reka’s Multimodal AI Assistant, LinkedIn’s Career Coach
Raises: Gradient ($10M, DevOps), Lemurian Labs ($9M, chips), Vera ($2.7M, AI governance)