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White House promises on AI regulation called ‘vague’ and ‘disappointing’
The “voluntary commitments” from seven leading AI tech companies to help address safety, security, and trust risks associated with their ever-evolving technologies aren’t worth the paper they could have been written on, according to tech industry experts. On Friday, US President Joseph R. Biden Jr. said he met with representatives from Amazon, Anthropic, Google, Inflection, Meta,…
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Major generative AI players join to create the Frontier Model Forum
Google, OpenAI, Microsoft, and Anthropic will be the founding members of the Frontier Model Forum, an umbrella group for the generative AI industry. The group plans to focus on safety research, as well as the identification of best practices, public policy, and use cases for the rapidly advancing technology that can benefit society as a…
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AI tools could leave companies liable for anti-bias missteps
As lawmakers and others work to address privacy, security, and bias problems with generative artificial intelligence (AI), experts warned companies this week that their tech suppliers won’t be holding the bag when something goes wrong — they will. A panel of three AI and legal experts held a press conference Wednesday in the wake of…
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EEOC Commissioner: AI system audits might not comply with federal anti-bias laws
Keith Sonderling, commissioner of the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), has for years been sounding the alarm about the potential for artificial intelligence (AI) to run afoul of federal anti-discrimination laws such as the Civil Rights Act of 1964. It was not until the advent of ChatGPT, Bard, and other popular generative AI tools,…
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Apple plays nice with others for an OpenUSD metaverse
Apple, Adobe, Pixar, Autodesk, NVIDIA, and the Joint Development Foundation have joined forces to develop a standard that can be used to underpin mixed- and virtual-reality experiences — a move that also undermine Meta’s efforts in the AR/VR arena. Opening up the 3D universe The companies formed the Alliance for OpenUSD (AOUSD) to promote the…