Research Alert: The European Union’s AI Act: beyond motherhood and apple pie?
Research Alert: The European Union’s AI Act: beyond motherhood and apple pie? Authors: Nathalie A. Smuha and Karen Yeung Abstract: In spring 2024, the European Union formally adopted the AI Act, aimed at creating a comprehensive legal regime to regulate AI systems. In so doing, the Union sought to maintain a harmonized and competitive single […]
Research Alert: The state of AI in the Swiss tech industry: Results from a survey by ETH Zurich in cooperation with Swissmem and Next Industries
Research Alert: The state of AI in the Swiss tech industry: Results from a survey by ETH Zurich in cooperation with Swissmem and Next Industries Authors: Olivier von Dzengelevski, Matthias Bickel, Qixuan Zhang, and Torbjörn Netland Abstract: This report summarizes the results of a study into the state of AI adoption and plans in the […]
Google falling short of important climate target, cites electricity needs of AI
Google falling short of important climate target, cites electricity needs of AI This article is written by Alexa St. John for Associate Press. Three years ago, Google set an ambitious plan to address climate change by going “net zero,” meaning it would release no more climate-changing gases into the air than it removes, by 2030. […]
Meta and Apple Hold Back New AI Features For European Users Over Regulatory Concerns
Meta and Apple Hold Back New AI Features For European Users Over Regulatory Concerns This article was written by James Morales for CCN. Artificial Intelligence has emerged as the latest battle line between American Big Tech firms and European regulators, which are closely monitoring the emerging landscape of AI services for potential privacy, antitrust and […]
A vision for the AI Office: Rethinking digital governance in the EU
A vision for the AI Office: Rethinking digital governance in the EU This article has been co-authored by Kai Zenner, Philipp Hacker and Sebastian Hallensleben for Euractiv. Spearheading the implementation of the world’s first comprehensive legislation on Artificial Intelligence (AI), the AI Office requires robust leadership and an innovative structure that mirrors the dynamism of […]
Commission establishes AI Office to strengthen EU leadership in safe and trustworthy Artificial Intelligence
Commission establishes AI Office to strengthen EU leadership in safe and trustworthy Artificial Intelligence On 29th May 2024 the Commission has unveiled the AI Office, established within the Commission. The AI Office aims at enabling the future development, deployment and use of AI in a way that fosters societal and economic benefits and innovation, while mitigating risks. […]
Frontier AI Safety Commitments, AI Seoul Summit 2024
Frontier AI Safety Commitments, AI Seoul Summit 2024 Leading AI organisations agree to the Frontier AI Safety Commitments in furtherance of safe and trustworthy AI. These organisations, in furtherance of safe and trustworthy AI, undertake to develop and deploy their frontier AI models and systems responsibly, in accordance with the following voluntary commitments, and to demonstrate how they have […]
Article Alert: Towards Guaranteed Safe AI: A Framework for Ensuring Robust and Reliable AI Systems
Article Alert: Towards Guaranteed Safe AI: A Framework for Ensuring Robust and Reliable AI Systems Authors: Dalrymple et al., 2024 Abstract: Ensuring that AI systems reliably and robustly avoid harmful or dangerous behaviours is a crucial challenge, especially for AI systems with a high degree of autonomy and general intelligence, or systems used in safety-critical […]
AI Act: Council gives final green light to the first worldwide rules on AI
AI Act: Council gives final green light to the first worldwide rules on AI On 21st May 2024, the Council of the European Union approved a ground-breaking law aiming to harmonise rules on artificial intelligence, the so-called artificial intelligence act. The flagship legislation follows a ‘risk-based’ approach, which means the higher the risk to cause harm to society, the stricter […]
Article Alert: Regulating general-purpose AI: Areas of convergence and divergence across the EU and the US
Article Alert: Regulating general-purpose AI: Areas of convergence and divergence across the EU and the US Authors: Benjamin Cedric Larsen and Sabrina Küspert Abstract: The current fast-paced advancement of AI has been described as an “unprecedented moment in history” by one of the pioneers of this field, Yoshua Bengio, at a U.S. Senate hearing in 2023. In many cases, […]