Week 5: What's Happening in AI

US rules explained, Big AI launches industry forum, AI’s Oppenheimer moment, and more.

| Policy

Americas:

• AI rules that US policymakers are considering, explained

• Senate passes "AI, Group of Four" amendments in the National Defense Authorization Act

• Children's online safety bills clear Senate hurdle amidst civil liberties pushback

• California agency wants to know what happens to all that connected car data

Europe:

• Open-source stakeholders want EU AI Act edit access

• The EU is leading the charge on AI 

• Opinion: US-EU AI Code of Conduct: First step towards transatlantic pillar of global AI governance?

Asia:

• Generative AI services pulled from Apple App Store in China ahead of new regulations (more on China’s new rules here)

• Commerce Sec. Raimondo plans August China trip as tensions over tech controls simmer

ICYMI: Biden-Harris administration secures voluntary commitments from leading AI companies (more here)

| Responsible AI

• Microsoft, Anthropic, Google, and OpenAI launch Frontier Model Forum, an industry body focused on ensuring safe and responsible development

Security and safety:

• Researchers discover new vulnerability in LLMs 

• Attacks on AI Models: Prompt injection vs supply chain poisoning (more here)

• Interview: Anthropic’s co-founder Dario Amodei on the paradoxes of AI safety

Benchmarks and frameworks:

• Adding structure to AI harm

• The race to find a better way to label AI

• Resource: HIPAA explainer for start-ups

Workforce:

• The workers behind AI rarely see its rewards. This Indian startup wants to fix that

• ICYMI: 'Training my replacement’: Inside a call center worker’s battle with AI 

Language:

• Google’s Jigsaw was trying to fight toxic speech with AI. Then the AI started talking

• ICYMI: AI often mangles African languages. Local scientists and volunteers are taking it back to school 

ICYMI: OpenAI worries about what its chatbot will say about people’s faces

| Where AI is going

Frontiers:

• Palantir's co-founder on our Oppenheimer moment: the creation of AI weapons (more here)

• DeepMind’s AlphaFold changed the shape of science — but there is more to do (more here)

• Aided by AI language models, Google’s robots are getting smart

• Six ways that AI could change politics

Hardware and compute:

• A room-temperature superconductor? New developments

• Chinese researchers used AI to design a CPU in under 5 hours

• CoreWeave poised to make billions with its GPU cloud (more here)

Replicas and scans:

• This games rating agency wants to scan gamers' faces to verify their ages

• ICYMI: Actors say Hollywood studios want their AI replicas — for free, forever

Information:

• New studies: Facebook doesn’t make people more partisan 

• News Corp using AI to produce 3,000 Australian local stories a week

Opinion: Unregulated AI will worsen inequality, warns Nobel-winning economist

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