#AIWeek certainly delivered. Conversations remains focused on about the much anticipated Executive Order on AI (OMB also released its draft guidance, with public comments due Dec 5) Lots of reflections and commentary out there (including these articles by MIT Tech Review and the Wall Street Journal). That's been our focus as well, in addition to watching for what (if anything) comes out of the UK's AI Summit.
The world wants to regulate AI, but does not quite know how | The Economist
The UK global summit on AI (Nov 1-2) needs to focus on 3 questions, writes The Economist: What should the world worry about? What should any rules target? And how should they be enforced? Although developers are pushing for use-based regulation, the capacities of LLMs have many Western nations reconsidering whether the models themselves should be subject to regulation.
And a few non-AI governance items …
At 10-14 Euros a month, the no-ads, paid version of Meta products isn't cheap, but if Europeans do subscribe, it will create an interesting test case of how social media functions absent the 'paid-eyeballs for advertising' model. This experiment calls to mind this MIT Tech Review piece we highlighted a few weeks ago on the internet's commodification of attention.
Timely in the context of the horrors and claims coming out of Gaza and Israel, this article in 'Journal of Human Rights Practice' offers tangible recommendations on how human rights defenders can responsible use video evidence and activism in the age of AI and deepfakes.
The Lawfare Podcast: The Crisis Facing Efforts to Counter Election Disinformation | Lawfare
Lawfare interviews Dean Jackson on the state of election disinformation looking ahead to 2024, highlighting the findings of an excellent report we highlighted a few weeks ago from the Center for Democracy and Technology.