AI Act Trilogue Topics: Open Source

AI Act Trilogue Topics: Open Source Authors: Catelijne Muller and Maria Rebrean On June 14 of this year, the legislative process of the AIA entered its final phase, the Trilogue. During this phase the co-legislators (EP and Council) will negotiate the final text of the AIA under the brokerage of the European Commission. In this […]

How the U.N. Plans to Shape the Future of AI

How the U.N. Plans to Shape the Future of AI This article has been published on Time. Following is an excerpt from the article. As the United Nations General Assembly gathered this week in New York, the U.N. Secretary-General’s envoy on technology, Amandeep Gill, hosted an event titled Governing AI for Humanity, where participants discussed the risks […]

Are we the last generation – or the first sustainable one?

Are we the last generation – or the first sustainable one? The word “sustainability” gets thrown around a lot these days. But what does it actually mean for humanity to be sustainable? Environmental data scientist Hannah Ritchie digs into the numbers behind human progress across centuries, unpacking why the conventional understanding of sustainability is misleading […]

MIT scholars awarded seed grants to probe the social implications of generative AI

MIT scholars awarded seed grants to probe the social implications of generative AI In July, MIT President Sally Kornbluth and Provost Cynthia Barnhart issued a call for papers to “articulate effective roadmaps, policy recommendations, and calls for action across the broad domain of generative AI.” Over the next month, they received an influx of responses […]

SambaNova unveils new AI chip to power full-stack AI platform

SambaNova unveils new AI chip to power full-stack AI platform Palo-Alto-based SambaNova Systems has unveiled a new AI chip, the SN40L, which will power its full-stack large language model (LLM) platform, the SambaNova Suite, that helps enterprises go from chip to model — building and deploying customized generative AI models. Rodrigo Liang, cofounder and CEO of SambaNova Systems, told […]

Lessons Learned from Assessing Trustworthy AI in Practice

Lessons Learned from Assessing Trustworthy AI in Practice This article is published in Digital Society journal by several renowned researchers in the domain of Trustworthy AI. Abstract: Building artificial intelligence (AI) systems that adhere to ethical standards is a complex problem. Even though a multitude of guidelines for the design and development of such trustworthy […]

Spain establishes the EU’s first AI supervisory agency

Spain establishes the EU’s first AI supervisory agency This article authored by Ceyhun Pehlivan and Elena Valín, discusses how Spain has approved a law establishing the first supervisory agency for artificial intelligence in the EU. The Spanish Artificial Intelligence Supervisory Agency (AESIA) is expected to be operational within three months. This marks a significant step […]

The European AI Liability Directives

The European AI Liability Directives: Critique of a Half-Hearted Approach and Lessons for the Future This article, authored by Philipp Hacker, Chair of Law and Ethics of the Digital Society @ European University Viadriana, has been recently published in Computer Law & Security Review (51). Abstract: The optimal liability framework for AI systems remains an unsolved problem across the […]

Europe’s Digital Constitution

Europe’s Digital Constitution Anu Bradford, the Henry L. Moses Professor of Law and International Organization at Columbia Law School and the author of Digital Empires: The Global Battle to Regulate Technology, writes on Verfassungsblog: Moments after completing his purchase of Twitter in October 2022, Elon Musk tweeted that “the bird is freed”—an apparent reference to his […]