2023 highlights: The White House Executive Order on AI outlines 150 requirements for government agencies. @StanfordHAI
’s policy team is tracking progress at a most granular level:
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White House AI Executive Order: 150 Requirements Tracking Progress
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Democratized Power Technology Proliferation Across All Motivations
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Whether it’s commercial, religious, cultural, or military, democratic or authoritarian, every possible motivation can be dramatically enhanced by having cheaper power at your fingertips. These tools will be available to all, a proliferation of not just technology but capability
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NYT Sues Microsoft OpenAI for Billions in Copyright Infringement
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The NYT is suing Microsoft and OpenAI for “billions of dollars” worth of damages over alleged copyright infringement. The Times alleges the firms created a business based on “mass copyright infringement” through their use of news content to train AI.
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AI’s rippling effects across global communities and society
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It spans communities in Kenya, India, China, Argentina, Europe, and the United States, and the unexpected, rippling after-effects of our society’s increasing reliance on AI. It’s not about the people building tech, but the rest of us – those will use and experience its impacts.
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Times Sues OpenAI Microsoft Over Copyrighted Content in AI
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The Times Sues OpenAI and Microsoft Over A.I.’s Use of Copyrighted Work. “It also calls for the companies to destroy any chatbot models and training data that use copyrighted material from The Times.” https://
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FIFA and FIFPRO Use AI to Protect Football
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[#Article] How FIFA and FIFPRO Protect the World of Football Thanks to #AI https://actuia.com/actualite/comment-la-fifa-et-la-fifpro-protegent-le-monde-du-football-grace-a-lia/
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AI Geopolitics: How AI Transforms Global Power Dynamics
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In my essay w/ @IanBremmer How AI Could Upend Geopolitics, we argue that AI will transform power and who can wield it. Policymakers are already behind the curve. Read or listen at @ForeignAffairs
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Surveillance as loneliness cure: surveillance industry’s central marketing narrative
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Persistent surveillance sold as a cure for loneliness (alienation, isolation, etc) is, IMO, one of the central marketing narratives of the surveillance business model. But it's rarely put as plainly as this! https://
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China’s Strategic Push Toward Robot Superpower Status
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China’s quest to become a robot superpower
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OpenAI Transparency: Models, Azure Contracts, and Labor Practices
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Partial list:
1. Transparency about what is actually in OAI models/datasets (ht @BlancheMinerva
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2. Azure cloud contract transparency–who's licensing GPT, for what use, how much $
3. Transparency on training/calibration (RLHF etc) costs, w details on labor process + worker pay