Hub News
The Hub is organizing a webinar/book talk on The Next Reality, by Dr. Louis Rosenberg and Alvin Graylin. The book examines how AI and XR are increasingly intertwined.
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Digital Trade and Data Governance News
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Artificial Intelligence News
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The European Commission instituted the European AI Office, which is set to play a key role in enforcing the AI Act, ensuring safe and ethical AI deployment across the EU, and promoting international cooperation.
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U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo announced the appointment of Elizabeth Kelly as Director and Elham Tabassi as Chief Technology Officer of the U.S. AI Safety Institute, housed within the National Institute for Standards and Technology.
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The Federal Communications Commission banned AI-generated voices in robocalls, citing concerns over voter deception and potential misuse of the technology.
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In a controversial move, French startup Mistral announced a partnership with Microsoft, drawing criticism from EU policymakers over concerns of Europe's competitiveness in AI innovation.
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New York City took legal action against TikTok, Meta, Snap, and YouTube, seeking changes in behavior and financial damages in a jury trial over the companies’ alleged intentional manipulation and addiction of younger users through their platforms.
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The Biden administration announced that federal agencies have met key deadlines for implementing the AI executive order. The Administration also created a website detailing how its agencies use AI.
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The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office issued guidance clarifying AI's role in patents, stating that inventions involving AI are patent-eligible if humans make a “significant contribution.”
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The Allen Institute for AI unveiled a fully open-source large language model, the Open Language Model (OLMo) framework, which offers access to comprehensive resources including pre training data, model weights, training code, evaluation suites, and fine-tuning code under the Apache 2.0 License.
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Italy's data protection authority notified OpenAI that ChatGPT AI breaches EU privacy rules, prompting a 30-day deadline for the company to present a defense.
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SORA, Open AI’s new text and image model is shockingly impressive. Google Deepmind’s Genie might promise the same for text-to-interaction.
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Google announced a pause on its Gemini AI's ability to generate images of people due to inaccuracies, particularly in historical depictions.
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The OECD launched the OECD.AI Expert Group on AI, Data, and Privacy, aiming to foster international cooperation to align AI development with privacy principles.
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A tribunal ruled that Air Canada must refund a passenger misled by its chatbot regarding the airline’s bereavement travel policy.
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The UK government published its response to a recent consultation on AI regulation, emphasizing a pro-innovation approach that seeks to harness the technology's potential while ensuring safety and public trust through comprehensive investment and framework development.
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The Department of Commerce Data Governance Board launched the AI and Open Government Data Assets Working Group to develop guidelines for making Commerce data AI-ready.
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Byron Tau reports on a revelation in national security strategy: a government contractor, Mike Yeagley, uncovers the security risk posed by Grindr data and pioneers the Pentagon's use of targeted ads for intelligence gathering. The widespread collection and accessibility of personal location data, often obtained through everyday apps, poses significant privacy risks, potentially exposing individuals to surveillance by various entities including intelligence agencies, foreign governments, private investigators, and journalists, with implications ranging from personal indiscretions to potential misuse for tracking sensitive activities.
- Jon Keegan reports on the concerns surrounding the fate of extensive location data held by data broker Near as it goes bankrupt, prompting congressional and FTC intervention to safeguard consumer privacy.
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David Autor argues that AI presents an opportunity to extend expertise to a broader workforce, potentially revitalizing the middle class by enabling a larger set of workers to perform higher-stakes decision-making tasks traditionally reserved for elite experts.
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Sayash Kapoor and Arvind Narayanan, among others, contribute to the debate on openness in AI with a paper that offers clarity on the societal impact of open foundation models.
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Aurelia Tamò-Larrieux, Clement Guitton, Simon Mayer, Christoph Lutz evaluate regulation's role in establishing trust in AI by analyzing factors affecting trust and proposing a framework for assessing regulatory impact.
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Kate Knibbs from Wired reports that former Meta employees Tony Eastin and Sandeep Abraham discovered a network of websites producing deceptive clickbait content through AI-generated articles, raising concerns about misinformation and propaganda and prompting them to release a report to raise awareness of the issue.
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Peter Lee discusses the emergence of synthetic data as a solution to challenges in training AI models.
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Researchers at Sitra, the Finnish Innovation Fund, outline ten priorities for the European Union to ensure leadership in the data economy.
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GAO identifies challenges in regulating emerging technologies for federal agencies, including drones and AI-enabled medical devices.
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NIST researchers examine the ethical considerations surrounding AI deployment, drawing parallels between AI research and human subjects research ethics, emphasizing the need to move from theoretical principles to practical application in AI development to safeguard human rights and mitigate potential biases and discrimination in AI systems.
- The Digital Impact Alliance presents three mini-briefs spotlighting human-centered data governance in developing countries: local language projects, outreach to underserved communities, and data sharing models prioritizing community benefit over corporate interests.
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Opportunities for Public Comment
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The NTIA seeks public input on the risks, benefits, and policy approaches for dual-use foundation AI models with widely available weights, as directed by President Biden's Executive Order.
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The European Commission is soliciting feedback on its White Paper “How to master Europe’s digital infrastructure needs?” which analyzes challenges in the rollout of future connectivity networks.
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Opportunities for Participation
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Open Future, in collaboration with Creative Commons and Fundación Karisma, is hosting an alignment assembly until March 15 to explore principles for regulating generative AI, seeking input from activists, creators, and stewards of the commons to refine regulatory principles.
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The GPAI IP Project Advisory Committee is hosting a workshop on March 4th, exploring open-source and open access licensing in AI LLMs. The event will feature expert speakers discussing licensing mechanisms, safety considerations, and strategies to prevent license proliferation.
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For readers in Washington DC, the Fix Congress Caucus and Modernization Staff Association are hosting Digital Delivery Day, showcasing cutting-edge constituent service products and technology demos from federal agencies and the House, on Tuesday, March 5th in the Rayburn Foyer. RSVP here.
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