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Editorial

Artificial Intelligence: Managing Risk through Regulation

November 22, 2023

Via: Camila Mendes

“Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war.” This statement on AI Risk, signed by some of the most notable leaders in the industry like OpenAI […]


Emerging Tech & Modernization, Tech

What are agencies doing with AI? A bipartisan Senate duo wants to know

November 14, 2023

Via: Government Executive

Lawmakers on the Senate Finance Committee are asking for clearer information on how some federal agencies use artificial intelligence technologies in their operations to ensure that such uses are safe and secure. Sens. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and Mike Crapo, R-Idaho […]


IT Policy, Tech

28 countries reach landmark agreement on “safe and responsible” AI development

November 1, 2023

Via: CSO Online

A collection of almost 30 countries that includes the US, Australia and China, along with the European Union (EU), have reached a world-first agreement at Bletchley Park establishing a shared understanding of the opportunities and risks posed by frontier AI. […]


IT Policy, Tech

Agencies get marching orders as White House issues AI-safety directive

October 30, 2023

Via: Government Executive

The White House hopes to guide how technologists develop artificial intelligence and how the government prompts and adopts AI tools, under a new executive order to be unveiled Monday. The order lays out some basic safety rules to prevent AI-enabled […]


IT Policy, Tech

Regulatory uncertainty overshadows gen AI despite pace of adoption

August 24, 2023

Via: CIO

While AI has steadily worked its way into the enterprise and business vernacular over many years, gen AI has not only become an abrupt and immediate force unto itself, but also an overarching AI accelerant. Not without warning signs, however. […]


IT Policy, Tech

The United States government will let AI companies self-regulate for their own good

July 24, 2023

Via: TechSpot

The White House recently persuaded Amazon, Anthropic, Google, Inflection, Meta, Microsoft, and OpenAI to sign a document dictating several voluntary commitments for ensuring a “Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy” AI. Many things could change in the months to come, starting with […]


IT Policy, Tech

What will the federal government do with generative AI?

July 18, 2023

Via: Government Executive

Federal activity in the generative AI space so far has been limited. While federal agencies have fielded more than a thousand AI use cases, they aren’t yet widely leveraging the content-creation powers of ChatGPT, Google’s Bard and other large language […]


IT Policy, Tech

Biden to meet with AI experts to talk regulation and safety

June 20, 2023

Via: FCW

President Joe Biden is expected to meet with a cohort of experts and researchers in the expanding field of artificial intelligence, part of the ongoing executive effort to integrate more private sector and academic expertise into federal technology policy. Announced […]


Emerging Tech & Modernization, Tech

Schumer announces Senate will hold ‘first-ever Senators-only’ hearing on Artificial Intelligence

June 13, 2023

Via: Fox News

The U.S. Senate will host its first members-only briefing on Artificial Intelligence this week amid security and election concerns. “Tomorrow, the Senate will convene the first-ever Senators-only briefing on Artificial Intelligence,” Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer tweeted Monday evening. Domestically, […]


IT Policy, Tech

Governments worldwide grapple with regulation to rein in AI dangers

June 5, 2023

Via: CSO Online

Ever since generative AI exploded into public consciousness with the launch of ChatGPT at the end of last year, calls to regulate the technology to stop it from causing undue harm have risen to fever pitch around the world. The […]


Cybersecurity

AI and China are ‘defining challenges of our time,’ CISA director says

May 31, 2023

Via: FCW

The head of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency warned on Wednesday about the security risks posed by generative artificial intelligence technologies and an increasingly bellicose China, calling them “the two epoch defining challenges of our time.” During an event […]


IT Policy, Tech

EU’s AI Act challenge: balance innovation and consumer protection

May 22, 2023

Via: CIO

Members of the EU Parliament have agreed on a first draft for regulating the use of AI. The AI ​​Act is now taking the next procedural step to be negotiated and worked out with individual member states. In the end, […]


IT Policy, Tech

AI technology “can go quite wrong,” OpenAI CEO tells Senate

May 17, 2023

Via: ArsTechnica

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman testified in the US Senate today about the potential dangers of artificial intelligence technology made by his company and others, and urged lawmakers to impose licensing requirements and other regulations on organizations that make advanced AI […]


IT Policy, Tech

Lawmakers Introduce Bill to Keep AI from Going Nuclear

April 28, 2023

Via: Government Executive

Congress has undertaken a flurry of new activity targeting artificial intelligence technologies in recent weeks, following the rapid advancement and ambiguous implications of AI systems. Lawmakers from both chambers—namely Sen. Ed Markey, D-Mass., and Reps. Ted Lieu, D-Calif., Don Beyer, […]


IT Policy, Tech

AI/ML advancements outpacing federal policies, cyber experts warn

April 20, 2023

Via: FCW

Cybersecurity and technology experts warned lawmakers Wednesday that recent artificial intelligence and machine learning advancements have outpaced current policies within the federal government, necessitating new regulations and standards to help grapple with the rapid development of emerging technologies. And while […]


IT Policy, Tech

Biden may regulate AI for ‘disinformation,’ ‘discriminatory outcomes’

April 14, 2023

Via: Fox News

The Biden administration is pursuing regulations for artificial intelligence systems that would require government audits to ensure they produce trustworthy outputs, which could include assessments of whether AI is promoting “misinformation” and “disinformation.” Alan Davidson, assistant secretary of communications and […]


Cybersecurity

China slaps security reviews on AI products as Alibaba unveils ChatGPT challenger

April 11, 2023

Via: ArsTechnica

China proposed new checks on artificial intelligence chatbots on Tuesday, in an effort to control how its tech industry rolls out generative AI models, as popularized by ChatGPT in the US. Hours after tech giant Alibaba followed its peers SenseTime […]