Observability helps power the agent improvement loop But it's not just observability! It's also feedback! You should be trying to get as much feedback (direct, indirect, generated) into your agent observability platform as possible
POLICY
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Governments Should Embrace Open-Source and Sovereign AI
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More governments and public agencies should use HF and open-source AI in general. Let’s go sovereign AI!
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AI’s contested nature stems from diverse stakeholder interests
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Everything about AI will be contested, because everyone has different interests. So it is and so it will be for so it has been, time out of mind.
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AI Regulation and Professional Influence in Government Policy
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Missing from the “will AI replace doctors?” debate is that doctors (and lawyers and psychologists and bankers) all vote & form the donor base to political parties & have deep community ties. The government will largely determine what AI is allowed to do, no matter what it can do
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NIST Public AI Ability Tests as Independent Evaluator
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In addition to the CAISI evaluation, it would be useful if NIST conducted public tests of AI abilities as an independent evaluator – though those obviously should not be pre-release tests & can be done when models are public. Independent testing is important & getting expensive.
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AI Governance Must Enable Business Not Police It
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The third lesson is the one every C-level team should pay attention to right now: In the age of AI, governance teams cannot act like the police. Agents, dashboards, and data products are multiplying fast.
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Assessing National Security Implications of New AI Models
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not sure we're qualified to assess the nat sec implications of new models but im not opposed to trying
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AI Accountability Frameworks Face Challenges From Autonomous Agents
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NIST CSF 2.0 and the EU AI Act both assume an organization can answer for what its systems do. Once those systems decide and act without human approval at every step, "answering for" needs different scaffolding. This is a useful first attempt at one.
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Google, Microsoft, xAI Grant US Government Early Access to AI Models
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Google, Microsoft and xAI have agreed to give the U.S. Commerce Department early access to unreleased AI models so the government can evaluate their capabilities and security before public launch.
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Stanford Scholars Use ML to Tackle Child Labor in Ghana’s Cocoa Sector
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You aren’t the first to call me that. And it isn’t the same as alcohol at all. By the way this solves the alcohol problem too.