The Code of Hammurabi comes in at 4500 words. Pretty long. But the new White House order on Artificial Intelligence comes in at 20,000 words. So at least it has accomplished the feat of being over 4 times larger than the Code of Hammurabi. Congrats to all who worked on this! But
POLICY
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Accelerating AI to Reduce Human Extinction Risk
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“If we want humanity to survive and thrive for the next 1,000 years, rather than slowing AI down with burdensome regulations, I would rather make it go faster.” @AndrewYNg AI will reduce extinction risk for humans.
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Regulatory Capture Threatens Open AI Access for All
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Please read and if you share these views (I bet you do) help amplify both this letter and the concepts here. Can you imagine a world where regulatory capture forces all big AI projects to be closed and monopolized by a few tech giants? Keep AI for the people!
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Exclusion from AI Safety Summit Second Day Raises Questions
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I wasn't invited to the 2nd day of the AI Safety Summit
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Stopping Open Source AI Regulation Protects Market Competition
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Banning (or even regulating and slowing down) open source like llama 3 and mistral 2 is functionally equivalent to anti-competitiveness. So we should do what needs to be done to stop it from happening.
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Building Healthy AI Ecosystem: Collective Responsibility Across Sectors
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It takes a healthy ecosystem to build and harness AI; this includes the public sector, private sector, civil society, and every individual. It’s our collective responsibility.
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Open Letter to Biden: AI Regulation Must Support Open Source
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I signed this open letter to President Biden to argue that Executive Orders and regulations of AI should promote open source AI platforms, and certainly not hinder them. Signed by execs from Meta, HF, Mistral, Shopify… as well as a number of prominent execs from the VC world.
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AI Transparency Essential for Effective Regulation Accountability
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In a new @FinancialTimes op-ed, HAI International Policy Fellow @MarietjeSchaake says transparency from AI companies is necessary for effective AI regulation. “Transparency isn’t just an important ideal. It is essential to successful AI accountability.”
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UK Deputy PM Endorses Open-Source Code as Global Economic Benefit
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Releasing good open-source code is giving a wonderful gift to the world. I'm thrilled the UK deputy PM @OliverDowden gets it, and just made a strong statement in support of open-source: “It's not just economies like the U.K. and other European countries that benefit from open
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Google supports National Quantum Initiative Act reauthorization
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Google supports the reauthorization of the National Quantum Initiative Act — this effort is critical in advancing quantum computing and its ability to address some of the world's most pressing challenges. ↓