ChatGPT’s Electricity Consumption

ChatGPT’s Electricity Consumption Kaspar Groes Albin Ludvigsen estimates that ChatGPT may have consumed as much electricity as 175’000 people. He writes: Estimating ChatGPT’s electricity consumption, on the other hand, is in principle simpler, because we do not need to know in which geographic regions ChatGPT is running. Below I explain how one can go about […]

Sandboxing the AI Act

Testing the AI Act Proposal with Europe’s Future Unicorns DIGITALEUROPE is delighted to present this report from our pre-regulatory sandboxing initiative, which aimed to evaluate the proposed AI Act and its potential implications for European start-ups and SMEs. In our manifesto for the current legislative term, A stronger digital Europe, we emphasised the need for agile […]

Trust & Tech Governance

Trust & Tech Governance: Towards a more engaged, collaborative, communicative approach Society Inside and Fraunhofer Institute have compiled a framework for facilitating trust and technology governance. Please click on this link to read it in full.

Framework for Meaningful Stakeholder Involvement

Framework for Meaningful Stakeholder Involvement in the Design and Delivery of Regulation and Governance Society Inside and European Center for Not-for-profit Law have compiled a framework for the meaningful stakeholder involvement in policy making. Click on this link to read it in full.

Two models of AI oversight – and how things could go deeply wrong

Two models of AI oversight – and how things could go deeply wrong Gary Marcus writes on his blog: The Senate hearing that I participated in a few weeks ago was in many ways the highlight of my career. I was thrilled by what I saw of the Senate that day: genuine interest, and genuine humility. […]

What should the regulation of generative AI look like?

What should the regulation of generative AI look like? This commentary published in Brookings, and co-authored by Nicol Turner Lee, Niam Yaraghi, Mark MacCarthy and Tom Wheeler envisions the different ways generative AI can be regulated. We are living in a time of unprecedented advancements in generative artificial intelligence (AI), which are AI systems that […]

EU leaders race over outreach initiatives to anticipate AI rules

EU leaders race over outreach initiatives to anticipate AI rules Luca Bertuzzi writes on June 5th, 2023 for EURACTIV.com: Top EU officials have set out several competing initiatives to engage with industry players and international partners before Europe’s new AI rulebook starts to bite. Last week, Margrethe Vestager, the Executive Vice-President for the digital portfolio, […]

EU Parliament Votes to Require Companies to Introduce Climate Transition Plans

EU Parliament Votes to Require Companies to Introduce Climate Transition Plans Mark Segal reports for esgtoday.com on June 1, 2023: Lawmakers in the European Parliament voted 366-225 on Thursday on new rules requiring companies to identify and address the impact of their activities and value chains on human rights and the environment, as well as […]

The Elders urge global co-operation to manage risks and share benefits of AI

The Elders urge global co-operation to manage risks and share benefits of AI The Elders today call on world leaders to work together urgently on the design of strong international governance, to allow all humanity to take advantage of the opportunities of Artificial Intelligence (AI), while limiting the enormous risks. The group of independent world […]

Regulating AI in Canada

Regulating AI in Canada: A Critical Look at the Proposed AI and Data Act Tessa Scassa of the University of Ottawa, presents a detailed analysis of the proposed AI and Data Act in Canada. Following is an abstract: Canada’s Bill C-27, The Digital Charter Implementation Act, includes a proposed Artificial Intelligence and Data Act (AIDA). […]