Book Alert: Artificial Intelligence Law – Between Sectoral Rules and Comprehensive Regime

Book Alert: Artificial Intelligence Law – Between Sectoral Rules and Comprehensive Regime Authors: Céline Castets-Renard and Jessica Eynard Artificial intelligence technologies are spreading across all aspects of social life: from automated decision-making tools used by administrations to facial recognition, personal assistants, recruitment software, and medical diagnostic aids, no sector of activity escapes their deployment. While […]
UN backs global AI watchdog: Urgent calls for governance

UN backs global AI watchdog: Urgent calls for governance Ilkhan Ozsevin writes for aimagazine.com about the UN proposal on “join[ing] forces with PM’s and cross-industry experts in calling for the establishment of an international AI watchdog“. This proposal is inline with the advocacy of AI Transparency Institute in the past year regarding regulating AI. To […]
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 […]
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, […]
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). […]
As the AI industry booms, what toll will it take on the environment?

As the AI industry booms, what toll will it take on the environment? Maanvi Singh analyzes the hidden energy and environmental costs of training, maintaining and deploying complex and large AI algorithms for The Guardian. To read the full article, please click on this link.
A quick history of AI, Machine Learning and Deep Learning

A quick history of AI, Machine Learning and Deep Learning Subhankar Samanta, provides an insightful and chronological account of the history of Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Deep Learning, published in Nerdy Electronics. To read the full article, please click on this link. Image credit: rawpixel.com on Freepik
Generative AI and Data Privacy: A Primer

Generative AI and Data Privacy: A Primer Kristin E. Busch has written a report for Congressional Research Service, published on May 23, 2023, which provides detailed insight into generative AI and data privacy for policy makers. To read the full report, please click on this link. Image credit: https://pxhere.com/https://pxhere.com/en/photo/1584997?utm_content=shareClip&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=pxhere