Shifting from Lobbying to Legislating

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Coordinated with Senator Schumer’s recent announcement regarding a national AI framework, The White House is continuing forward with the Biden-Harris Administration’s agenda for appropriately regulating AI, while big tech leaders concurrently prove why such sensible regulation is an urgent need. As we’ve said recently here at EdSAFE, it’s important to take all the headlines in aggregate and be aware that published stories may seem erratic. They are—by design. It was our “first contact” with AI (as Tristan Harris calls it) came through social media and began the war for our attention. And those algorithms worked. They’re still working even now, in parallel with what Harris referred to as the “second contact” humanity has experienced with the large language model, ChatGPT and soon others.

Preventing us from making the same historical mistakes derived from social media now in the AI era is really the driver. It’s why EdSAFE exists: to make certain for the sake of all involved in the education landscape are receiving all the benefits of innovation while mitigating the risks—whether human or synthetic—in privacy, in bias and equity, and in terms of education efficacy.

As the EdSAFE team continues to travel and present as well as publish and convene, we are excited to have a chance to make a palpable difference on the policy front along with our member organizations in accordance with shared values and a common mission. Likewise, we are honored to play our part with a focus on expert-informed policy framework development and relationship-building in order to support the work of our colleagues in other organizations playing to their strengths to make amazing tools infused with AI and inclusion of AI in curricula—even beyond STEM!

Per usual, there's more in the headlines below, and as always, please share your own observations and findings so we gain fresh perspectives and grow ourselves!

Efforts from policymakers.

• Exclusive: OpenAI Lobbied E.U. to Water Down AI Regulation | Time

• ‘A moment of revolution’: Schumer unveils strategy to regulate AI amid dire warnings

• U.S. and India set to announce flurry of deals on defense, chips, AI

• How AI Is Enabling Racism & Sexism: Algorithmic Justice League’s Joy Buolamwini on Meeting with Biden | Democracy Now!

• Military AI’s Next Frontier: Your Work Computer | WIRED

• AI unlikely to gain human-like cognition, unless connected to real world through robots, says study

• Better watch what you’re looking at, AI can reconstruct it in 3D

Concerns about economic impact.

• Exploring the role of AI in cybersecurity - Help Net Security

• The Pros and Cons of AI in Art: Will Robots Take Over? - Grit Daily News

• US-based generative AI job postings up 20% in May, Indeed data show | Reuters

• The workers already replaced by artificial intelligence - BBC News

• The next wave of cyber threats: Defending your company against cybercriminals empowered by generative AI | VentureBeat

• How to navigate the AI jungle with pragmatic steps for enterprise | VentureBeat

Big tech’s big moves

• OpenAI intros new generative text features while reducing pricing | TechCrunch

• OpenAI reportedly warned Microsoft about Bing’s bizarre AI responses - The Verge

• Apple Is an AI Company Now - The Atlantic

• Apple bans use of ChatGPT internally • The Register

• Apple Researchers Introduce ByteFormer: An AI Model That Consumes Only Bytes And Does Not Explicitly Model The Input Modality - MarkTechPost

• AWS invests $100 million in generative AI as it sees a long race ahead

• Mark Zuckerberg’s scary new AI is ‘too dangerous’ to make public | Daily Mail Online