HUB NEWS

The Hub's Director of Communications, Siaka Togola, is leaving us. He has done a wonderful job at the Hub. We are thankful for his contributions to the Hub. We are confident he will do greatthings. Siaka is a talented communications specialist and also does web design and development. You can contact him at stogola@me.com.

We wish him all the best in his future endeavours.

Adam Zable and Susan Aaronson participated in a podcast on XR competitiveness. Listen here.
The Hub hosted Shannon Pierson and Dr. Louis Rosenberg for a webinar on XR safety. In case you missed it, you can watch the YouTube video here.

The Hub’s next webinar with Dr. Anu Bradford of Columbia University Law School will be on August 9. She will discuss her new book on the governance of technology in the US and EU. We will provide more details shortly.

FTC Staff, Generative AI Raises Competition Concerns, June 29, 2023.
USG publishes inventory of AI use cases–these are public facing use cases. Here, as example, is the US Department of State’s AI inventory.
Information on the EU Data Act which will stimulate data-sharing among sectors in the EU Commissioner Vestager says the metaverse (which doesn’t exist) does not yet need controls.
China releases first open source computer operating system.
UK wants to regulate AI through the UN Security Council.
China is almost ready to finalize its regulations on generative AI.
US FTC investigating Open AIs Chat-GPT and it’s hallucinations.
The UN Security Council was briefed on AI.
New poll on trust in AI in America.
White House officials admits they don’t know how to judge if AI is safe.
A group of major tech companies working on artificial intelligence are pledging to submit their products to security testing and to share information about AI risk. Factsheet. Lots of division on AI regulation.

WHAT WE'RE READING

Barath Raghavan and Bruce Schneier propose that large tech companies pay into an AI Dividend fund to compensate the American public for its contributions to generative AI The US could regulate AI now.
UNESCO published “Open data for AI: what now?” The document offers guidelines “to apprise Member States of the value of open data, and to outline how data are curated and opened.”
Regulating AI in Canada by the great Teresa Scassa.
Meta’s Experiment on democratic XR governance.
Pegah Markham and colleagues at SNV on risks of AI and governance in Europe.

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