Who’s Shaping the Future of AI?: Dispatches From the Policy Battlefield

The White House backed an AI red-teaming exercise last year. The results are in.

“We need to worry about the many small catastrophes that AI can bring,” writes Ethan Mollick.

Fears about AI making decisions for you in the future are misplaced — because computers already control your life.

Oren Etzioni was once an optimist about artificial intelligence. Now, his nonprofit, TrueMedia.org, is offering tools for fighting A.I.-manipulated content.

The hard work starts now.

Can AI be made election-friendly?

Social media’s unregulated evolution over the past decade holds a lot of lessons that apply directly to AI companies and technologies.

Researchers at the Forecasting Research Institute tried to get AI optimists and pessimists on the same page. It didn’t quite work.

The European AI Office and the UK government are trying to hire experts to study and regulate the AI boom—but are offering salaries far short of industry compensation.

“I’m only speaking for myself today, but this certainly reflects how I’m thinking about the role AI could play in the Times newsroom and beyond.”

This week, we look at how domain squatters are using generative AI tools to crank out clickbait, and ask what Google is doing about it.

AI firms are facing major copyright challenges over their claims of fair use, and the industry’s future hangs in the balance.

For three decades, a tiny text file has kept the internet from chaos. This text file has no particular legal or technical authority, and it’s not even particularly complicated.

Companies need to analyze where they might fail to be compliant and then operationalize or implement the requisite steps to close the gaps in a way that reflects internal alignment. For most companies, that won’t be easy. The article lays out what boards, C-suites, and managers need to do to make this process work and ensure their companies will be compliant when regulation comes into force.

There is a big elephant in the room: outright bans might not even be technically feasible.

As educators incorporate AI literacy into their curriculums, some are teaching their students how to use the tech ethically and efficiently.

An expert explains the promise and peril of artificial intelligence.

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