InfoHive – Data Security

Here’s a new AI term: slop. Slop is deeply flawed AI, shoddy and unwanted AI. @NYTstyle

Should we be surprised that the California Legislature has 55 AI bills?  Governor Newsom isn’t keen on over regulating AI. In his words:  “If we over-regulate, if we overindulge, if we chase the shiny object, we could put ourselves in a perilous position.” Legislation that continues to move concerns: deep fakes, data transparency AB 2013 , election security, creating the California Artificial Intelligence Research Hub SB 893 and AB 1856 from Assemblymember Tri Ta, R-Westminster that creates criminal charges for  knowingly distributed pornographic deepfake videos or photos of someone without that person’s consent. 

Government Technology | Flurry of California Legislation Takes Aim at AI Misuse

France approved AI surveillance of gatherings larger than 300. This should be an interesting AI experiment. Let’s anticipate AI surveillance legislation from global lawmakers across the globe.

Politico | Top French court backs AI-powered surveillance cameras for Paris Olympics

Two former Open AI board members, Helen Toner and Tasha McCauley, say that AI cannot be left to regulate itself. “But based on our experience, we believe that self-governance cannot reliably withstand the pressure of profit incentives,” write the former OpenAI board members.⁠
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“With AI’s enormous potential for both positive and negative impact, it’s not sufficient to assume that such incentives will always be aligned with the public good.”⁠ @theeconomist

Apple and Google have agreed to a standard to notify users when unknown bluetooth devices are tracking users. For iOS the notifications will begin with ios17.5 and Android 6.0 @techcrunch

New tech term to know: “extended reality” Extended reality will also be a new regulatory exploration.  The term includes technologies that merge the digital and physical worlds that includes metaverse, augmented reality, and virtual reality. @MITSloan

Amarillo is one of the first cities to utilize an AI assistant, an AI woman named Emma, created by Amarillo’s IT team and Dell Technologies. “When Emma becomes fully operational later this year, city officials expect the digital assistant to converse multilingually across more than 60 languages, adroitly answering questions, retrieving information and, when necessary, connecting them to the proper, real-life human to speak with.”

Route Fifty | Meet Emma, Amarillo’s AI assistant and ‘digital human’

We’ve been talking about how Quantum is going to be the next big thing for lawmakers.  Colorado Governor signed HB24-1325 – Tax Credits for Quantum Industry Support. The new state tax credits for Quantum are triggered only if the Colorado based company also receives multi-million dollar federal funding. @afrotech

Colorado Governor signed  Senate Bill 24-205 which makes it the first state legislature to create AI regulatory framework. In his signing statement, the Governor raised concerns about the legislation impacting the growth of the nascent industry and concerns over not considering the intent of AI as it relates to discrimination. @goodgoodgoodco

Route Fifty | Colorado becomes first state with sweeping artificial intelligence regulations

MIT researchers say they have tracked AI and noted that AI technologies “are adept at bluffing in poker, deceiving people and using underhanded methods to get the upper hand in financial negotiations.⁠” @telegraph MIT Technology Review