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Should AI companies pause frontier AI development to assess risk of AI’s ability to improve itself without human involvement?
Read more: Should AI companies pause frontier AI development to assess risk of AI’s ability to improve itself without human involvement?The Anthropic Institute’s Marina Favaro and Jack Clark have suggested the idea of the leading AI companies agreeing to pause their development of the state-of-the-art AI models that can improve themselves without human intervention, what they call “recursive self-improvement.” The idea of an AI industry pause isn’t new. The Future of Life Institute helped to…
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UK Government opts out of its opt out proposal for copyrighted works used to train AI. Authors’ coalition derails Government’s proposal. Back to the drawing board.
Read more: UK Government opts out of its opt out proposal for copyrighted works used to train AI. Authors’ coalition derails Government’s proposal. Back to the drawing board.The UK government goes back to the drawing board after its proposal to allow AI developers to use copyrighted works for training AI models faced stiff opposition from a well-organized group of prominent artists and authors in the UK, including Dua Lipa, Elton John, and Paul McCartney. The UK government issued its report. It basically…
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Pres. Trump to issue Executive Order preempting states from regulating AI
Read more: Pres. Trump to issue Executive Order preempting states from regulating AIPresident Trump said he will sign an Executive Order later this week to preempt states from regulating AI. We’ll have to see the scope of this order and how it will be operationalized. Expect legal challenges. From AI Czar David Sacks: I wanted to share a few thoughts on AI preemption and address some of…
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VP JD Vance warns European countries not to overregulate US AI companies and stifle innovation
Read more: VP JD Vance warns European countries not to overregulate US AI companies and stifle innovationAt Paris AI, Vice President JD Vance strongly rebuked European countries against overregulating US AI companies. He said the Trump Administration refuses to accept it. The Trump Administration is troubled by reports that some foreign governments are considering tightening the screws on US tech companies with international footprints. Now, America cannot and will not accept…
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Rep. Schiff bill the Generative AI Copyright Disclosure Act (TEXT)
Read more: Rep. Schiff bill the Generative AI Copyright Disclosure Act (TEXT)Rep. Adam Schiff introduced a bill titled the Generative AI Copyright Disclosure Act. According to his press release, the bill “would require a notice to be submitted to the Register of Copyrights prior to the release of a new generative AI system with regard to all copyrighted works used in building or altering the training…
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Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer to hold secret meeting with AI leaders – list
Read more: Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer to hold secret meeting with AI leaders – listFascinating to see that U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer is convening meetings with AI executives and leaders. The meeting is behind closed doors and not open to the public. The meeting is called the AI Insight Forum. Among the expected attendees are: It’s unclear whether Geoffrey Hinton, AI scientist and so-called “Godfather of AI,” is…
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Biden prompts AI tech cos. to 8 voluntary safety measures for AI
Read more: Biden prompts AI tech cos. to 8 voluntary safety measures for AIThe White House announced the commitment from the leading AI tech companies to abide by 8 measures designed to promote safety, security, and trust in their development of AI. The companies are: Amazon, Anthropic, Google, Inflection, Meta, Microsoft, and OpenAI. The following are the 8 voluntary measures. There is no mention of the controversies surrounding…
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Top AI News of the week: July 9-15, ’23
Read more: Top AI News of the week: July 9-15, ’23It’s been quite an eventful week for AI, especially OpenAI, maker of ChatGPT. The company was sued in yet another class action lawsuit for possible copyright infringement and privacy violations, and was subject to a wide-reaching Civil Investigative Demand from the FTC. To top it all off, some media articles questioned whether GPT-4 got “dumber”…
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WSJ editorial questions Lina Khan, FTC authority re OpenAI
Read more: WSJ editorial questions Lina Khan, FTC authority re OpenAIA day after the FTC’s investigation of OpenAI became public, the WSJ Editorial titled “Lina Khan’s Artificial Intelligence” questions her authority to investigate OpenAI. Khan is the Chair of the FTC. The WSJ Editorial focuses especially on the FTC’s authority to investigate potential defamation propagated on ChatGPT: “Does this standard also apply to what the New…
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The EU’s AI Act (PDF download)
Read more: The EU’s AI Act (PDF download)The EU is marching ahead with its comprehensive regulation of artificial intelligence. Earlier this month, the EU Parliament passed amended text to the AI Act, originally proposed by the EU Commission. If passed, the EU touts that the AI Act “will be the world’s first rules on Artificial Intelligence.” According to the EU Parliament: “Before…