Tech & Society
Innovation Can’t Win: Bureaucracy chokes AI growth as lawmakers tighten grip
Politicians and pundits have conjured visions of doom to convince lawmakers to clamp down on AI. What if terrified legislators choke off innovation in AI?
AI Safety
Tech & Society
A Year of Contending Forces: State of AI report highlights 2024’s major trends and breakthroughs
A new report documents the interplay of powerful forces that drove AI over the past year: open versus proprietary technology, public versus private financing, innovation versus caution.
Business
U.S. Cracks Down on AI Apps That Overpromise, Underdeliver: U.S. Federal Trade Commission launches Operation AI Comply to tackle deceptive business practices
The United States government launched Operation AI Comply, targeting businesses whose uses of AI allegedly misled customers.
Machine Learning Research
AI’s Criminal Underground Revealed: Researchers uncover black market for AI-driven cybercrime services
Researchers probed the black market for AI services that are designed to facilitate cybercrime.
Tech & Society
California Restricts Deepfakes: California enacts laws to regulate deepfakes in politics and entertainment
California, a jurisdiction that often influences legislators worldwide, passed a slew of new laws that regulate deepfakes.
Tech & Society
Western Powers Sign AI Treaty: International AI treaty sets standards to support innovation and human rights
The European Union, United Kingdom, United States, and other countries signed a legally binding treaty that regulates artificial intelligence.
Tech & Society
Private Benchmarks for Fairer Tests: Scale AI launches SEAL leaderboards to benchmark model performance
Scale AI offers new leaderboards based on its own benchmarks.
Tech & Society
U.S. Restricts AI Robocalls: U.S. cracks down on AI-generated voice robocalls to combat election interference.
The United States outlawed unsolicited phone calls that use AI-generated voices.
Tech & Society
New Leaderboards Rank Safety, More: Hugging Face introduces leaderboards to evaluate model performance and trustworthiness.
Hugging Face introduced four leaderboards to rank the performance and trustworthiness of large language models (LLMs). The open source AI repository now ranks performance on tests of workplace utility, trust and safety, tendency to generate falsehoods, and reasoning.
Tech & Society
Standard for Media Watermarks: C2PA introduces watermark tech to combat media misinformation.
An alliance of major tech and media companies introduced a watermark designed to distinguish real from fake media starting with images. The Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity (C2PA) offers an open standard that marks media files with information about their creation and editing.
Tech & Society
OpenAI Revamps Safety Protocol: Inside OpenAI's framework to evaluate and mitigate model risks
Retrenching after its November leadership shakeup, OpenAI unveiled a new framework for evaluating risks posed by its models and deciding whether to limit their use.
Tech & Society
High Anx-AI-ety: A recap of 2023's battle between AI doomsday warnings and regulatory measures
Angst at the prospect of intelligent machines boiled over in moves to block or limit the technology. Fear of AI-related doomsday scenarios prompted proposals to delay research and soul searching by prominent researchers. Amid the doomsaying, lawmakers took dramatic regulatory steps.