That Was The Week That Was

That Was The Week That Was Marc Rotenberg, the founder and executive director of the Center for AI and Digital Policy has written a blog in the Communications of the ACM on the White House Executive Order on Safe and Trustworthy AI. It is conventional wisdom that technology typically outpaces the law. But the last […]
Valued at $1B, Kai-Fu Lee’s LLM startup unveils open source model

Valued at $1B, Kai-Fu Lee’s LLM startup unveils open source model This TechCrunch article written by Rita Liao, reports on Kai-Fu Lee, the venture capitalist and computer scientist wants to create an OpenAI equivalent for China. Kai-Fu Lee, the computer scientist known in the West for his bestseller “AI Superpowers” and in China for his bets on artificial […]
Aadhaar details of 815 million citizens leaked in India’s biggest data breach

Aadhaar details of 815 million citizens leaked in India’s biggest data breach This news article published by Hindustan Times, reports on a recent data breach linked to the Aadhaar (a unified national ID) database. The report noted that the leak was initially noticed by Resecurity, an American cyber security and intelligence agency. According to the […]
The EU AI Act and its Potential Impact on Enterprises Harnessing the Power of AI

The EU AI Act and its Potential Impact on Enterprises Harnessing the Power of AI Artificial intelligence (AI) systems have been widely adopted across sectors as well as applications. Accordingly, regulatory frameworks aimed at addressing and governing risks associated with these systems have followed the same trends. The most prominent and comprehensive example of such […]
Research Article: The Tragedy of AI GovernanceResearch Article

Research Article: The Tragedy of AI GovernanceResearch Article Simon Chesterman of the Faculty of Law of National University of Singapore, has published a working paper on AI Governance. Abstract: Despite hundreds of guides, frameworks, and principles intended to make AI “ethical” or “responsible”, ever more powerful applications continue to be released ever more quickly. Safety […]
OMB Releases Implementation Guidance Following President Biden’s Executive Order on Artificial Intelligence

OMB Releases Implementation Guidance Following President Biden’s Executive Order on Artificial Intelligence This week, President Biden signed a landmark Executive Order on the Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence. As the United States takes action to realize the tremendous promise of AI while managing its risks, the federal government will lead by example and provide […]
Joe Biden Wants US Government Algorithms Tested for Potential Harm Against Citizens

Joe Biden Wants US Government Algorithms Tested for Potential Harm Against Citizens Khari Johnson writes for WIRED about the new draft rules from the White House, which would require federal agencies to assess AI systems currently in use in law enforcement, health care, and other areas—and to shut down any algorithms doing harm. The White […]
A glimpse of the next generation of AlphaFold

A glimpse of the next generation of AlphaFold Since its release in 2020, AlphaFold has revolutionized how proteins and their interactions are understood. Google DeepMind and Isomorphic Labs have been working together to build the foundations of a more powerful AI model that expands coverage beyond just proteins to the full range of biologically-relevant molecules. Deepmind, recently shared an update on […]
AI Act: EU countries headed to tiered approach on foundation models amid broader compromise

AI Act: EU countries headed to tiered approach on foundation models amid broader compromise This article written by Luca Bertuzzi for Euractive, details a series of possible landing zones on the AI Act, a flagship legislative proposal to regulate AI based on its capacity to cause harm. The compromises concern critical areas of the text, […]
Ethics at the heart of AI

Ethics at the heart of AI Authored by Langlois and colleagues, this document is the result of a collaborative effort involving specialists in ethics, philosophy, computer science and economics. Its goal is to detail and clarify the role ethics should play in the age of Artificial Intelligence (AI) by highlighting how this notion can be […]