Week in Review (7/20/24)

Federal

? Fed AI Chiefs – guardians of truth https://www.washingtontechnology.com/opinion/2024/07/federal-ai-chiefs-guardians-truth-digital-age/398013/

? Biden tech advisor – AI is a today problem https://www.theverge.com/24197237/arati-prabhakar-ostp-director-tech-policy-science-ai-regulation-decoder-podcast

? DOE: roadmap for FASST AI program https://fedscoop.com/energy-highlights-roadmap-for-fasst-ai-program/

? USPTO: issues subject matter eligibility guidance https://www.uspto.gov/about-us/news-updates/uspto-issues-ai-subject-matter-eligibility-guidance

? WH: announces $100 million to boost tech hiring https://fedscoop.com/white-house-announces-nearly-100-million-in-pledges-to-boost-emerging-tech-workforce/

? State: leaning into AI to support feds https://federalnewsnetwork.com/artificial-intelligence/2024/07/how-the-state-department-is-leaning-into-ai-modernization-efforts-to-support-federal-workers/

? Power of AI in prepping for next national emergency https://federalnewsnetwork.com/commentary/2024/07/the-power-of-ai-data-in-preparing-for-the-next-national-emergency/

? House: requests FERC AI report https://broadbandbreakfast.com/house-requests-federal-energy-regulatory-commission-ai-report/

? FCC: chair proposes new moves to stop AI robocalls https://therecord.media/fcc-robocalls-additional-regulations-proposal-rosenworcel

? State: paying down cyber debt with AI https://www.meritalk.com/articles/state-dept-paying-down-cyber-skills-debt-with-ai/

? Commerce: CHCO charts bright path for GenAI https://meritalk.com/articles/commerce-chco-charts-bright-path-for-genai-applications

? Congress: demands answers on Google AI Overview https://cointelegraph.com/news/us-congress-members-demand-answers-google-over-ai-overview

? Congress: AI innovation explored, insights into AI apps https://financialservices.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=409324

? Trump allies want sweeping AI exec order https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/07/trump-allies-want-to-make-america-first-in-ai-with-sweeping-executive-order/

State/Local

? NewDeal Forum AI task force to help state/local gov https://statescoop.com/state-local-government-election-officials-ai-task-force-newdeal/

? San Jose approves first AI budget https://statetechmagazine.com/article/2024/07/san-jose-approves-its-first-ai-budget-allocation

? CA: conflict of interest with AI bill https://www.piratewires.com/p/sb-1047-dan-hendrycks-conflict-of-interest

? GenAI speeding procurement, but not without risk https://statescoop.com/generative-ai-government-procurement-risk-2024/

? AI is beyond government control https://statescoop.com/ai-government-policy-2024/

? Chatbot snapshot: how state, local govs use AI https://statescoop.com/government-ai-chatbots-state-local-websites-2024/

? GenAI gives cyber boost https://statescoop.com/ai-government-state-local-cybersecurity-2024/

? NY: automation bill would limit state use of AI https://statescoop.com/new-york-automation-ai-loading-act-2024/

? States go it alone on AI regs https://ohiocapitaljournal.com/2024/07/19/states-strike-out-on-their-own-on-ai-privacy-regulation/

? NY: NYDFS issues AI circular on consumer data https://www.mayerbrown.com/en/insights/publications/2024/07/new-york-state-department-of-financial-services-adopts-ai-guidance

? MI: AI blueprint starts to take shape https://www.axios.com/local/boston/2024/07/19/massachusetts-ai-task-force-artificial-intelligence

? WY: education dept issues AI guidance https://www.govtech.com/education/k-12/wyoming-education-department-issues-guidance-on-ai

International

? China: trip to Shanghai AI mega-conference shows still playing catchup to US https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/trip-shanghai-ai-mega-conference-210000412.html

? CA: no reason to rush AI policy https://macdonaldlaurier.ca/no-reason-for-canada-to-rush-ai-policy/

? UK: AI in society https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/ai-in-society/

? EU: AI law takeaways https://www.robert-schuman.eu/en/european-issues/757-what-to-take-away-from-the-european-law-on-artificial-intelligence

? UK: AI guidelines for parliaments https://www.wfd.org/ai-guidelines-parliaments

? Netherlands: spring 2024 report on AI risks https://www.dataguidance.com/news/netherlands-ap-publishes-spring-2024-report-ai-and

? G7 establish AI Hub for Sustainable Development https://www.undp.org/publications/ai-hub-sustainable-development-strengthening-local-ai-ecosystems-through-collective-action

? EU AI Act: next steps https://iapp.org/resources/article/eu-ai-act-timeline/

? China: testing models for core socialist values https://www.cnbc.com/2024/07/18/chinese-regulators-begin-testing-genai-models-on-socialist-values.html

? Australia: national framework for the assurance of AI in gov https://www.finance.gov.au/sites/default/files/2024-06/National-framework-for-the-assurance-of-AI-in-government.pdf

? Singapore: GenAI safety labels https://www.asiaone.com/singapore/safety-labels-ai-apps-clearly-state-risks-testing-discussion-josephine-teo

? EU: Meta hits the brakes on AI https://qz.com/meta-pause-generative-ai-brazil-multimodal-model-eu-1851599618

? UK: portal needed for AI victims https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/jul/18/ai-deepfakes-revenge-porn-reporting-portal-australia-laws

? Japan: 40% of firms lack AI plans https://www.artificialintelligence-news.com/news/over-40-percent-of-japanese-firms-lack-ai-adoption-plans/

? Japan: Fujitsu invests in OpenAI rival, eyeing Japanese LLM https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Technology/Artificial-intelligence/Fujitsu-invests-in-OpenAI-rival-Cohere-eyeing-Japanese-language-model

Other

? AI’s ‘Oppenheimer moment’ – autonomous weapons https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/jul/14/ais-oppenheimer-moment-autonomous-weapons-enter-the-battlefield

? AI predicts Alzheimer’s progression https://neurosciencenews.com/ai-alzheimers-progression-26430/

? Andrej Karpathy launches new training platform https://venturebeat.com/ai/ex-openai-and-tesla-engineer-andrej-karpathy-announces-ai-native-school-eureka-labs/

? AI weather forecasting faces first test https://weatherandclimateexpert.com/2024/07/01/ais-first-big-test-predicting-the-path-of-a-major-hurricane/

? DeepLearning.AI Batch News https://info.deeplearning.ai/hallucination-detector-battle-of-the-image-generators-how-open-are-open-models-copyright-claim-fails-against-github

? Cato: AI threatens free speech https://www.cato.org/briefing-paper/artificial-intelligence-regulation-threatens-free-expression

? Carnegie: governing military AI amid geopolitical minefield https://carnegieendowment.org/research/2024/07/governing-military-ai-amid-a-geopolitical-minefield

? New Coalition for Secure AI announced https://www.ccn.com/news/technology/big-tech-wiz-startups-ai-security-coalition/

? OpenAI new AI model ‘Strawberry’ https://www.reuters.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/openai-working-new-reasoning-technology-under-code-name-strawberry-2024-07-12/

? AI governance in practices – 2024 report https://iapp.org/media/pdf/resource_center/ai_governance_in_practice_report_2024.pdf

? AI tool predicts Alzheimer’s https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/ai-outperforms-clinical-tests-4-out-of-5-at-predicting-progress-of-alzheimers-disease

? Consciousness in AI – fact from fiction https://neurosciencenews.com/consciousness-ai-neuroscience-26469/

? Oxford’s DrugGPT enhances medication prescriptions https://thehealthcaretechnologyreport.com/oxfords-druggpt-ai-tool-enhances-medication-prescriptions/