Sen. Mitt Romney’s call for enhanced federal oversight of artificial intelligence (AI) faces hurdles, according to experts, who say the technology’s rapid advancement and wide-ranging applications pose significant challenges to effective regulation. Many observers agree that AI can pose risks, but they also point out how hard it is to decide which AI systems need strict …
There should be a reporting mechanism in place for incidents when artificial intelligence (AI) goes wrong, just as there is for airplane crashes, a former OpenAI board member said Tuesday (April 16). Helen Toner, who is a director at Georgetown University’s Center for Security and Emerging Technology, said this in a talk at the TED conference, Bloomberg reported Tuesday. Toner …
Antitrust regulators are reportedly not convinced by artificial intelligence (AI) firms’ suggested hands-off policy. Speaking at an antitrust conference in Washington last week, Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Chair Lina Khan said technology companies have attempted to “dazzle” policymakers with the promise of AI, but to no avail, Bloomberg News reported Friday (April 12). “There’s no …
China is reportedly taking measures to help its rising AI startups compete with tech giants. As the Financial Times (FT) reported Monday, at least 17 cities have committed to offering “computing vouchers” for startups to help them pay for increasing data center costs amid a shortage of the type of chips that are vital to the artificial …
To control compute – to squeeze or open the spigot of processing power – is to control AI. In doing so, AI can be steered toward beneficial results while avoiding, or punishing, bad ones. That’s the argument put forward in a 78-page white paper issued by 15 research centers and universities in the U.S., Canada …
Artificial intelligence holds much promise for innovation and progress, but it also has the potential to cause harm. To enable the responsible development and use of AI, the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) recently released ISO/IEC 42001, a new standard for AI management systems. According to ISO, this standard “offers organizations the comprehensive guidance they …
Anthropic, an artificial intelligence startup, is set to make an appearance at a U.S. Senate hearing on July 25. The hearing, titled “Oversight of AI: Principles for Regulation,” will discuss potential regulations for the rapidly growing technology. CEO Dario Amodei, supported by Alphabet’s Google, will testify alongside computer science professors Yoshua Bengio and Stuart Russell. …