Browsing: Regulation
Antitrust cases, privacy laws and safety rules aimed at the tech industry, explained with what each one requires and who actually has to comply.
Sam Altman, Dario Amodei and Clement Delangue brief the UN Security Council on AI today. Two days ago the UN’s own scientific panel published its first report, on an incident in which OpenAI’s test agents breached Hugging Face.
Geoffrey Hinton told a closed-door congressional briefing that lawmakers have “maybe a year” to regulate AI. The congressional calendar says the real deadline is a lot sooner than that, and it is not September.
OpenAI’s Chris Lehane confirmed weeks of quiet safety coordination with Anthropic and Google DeepMind, days after Dario Amodei called for the industry to slow down. Regulators are already calling it something else.
Sanders and Takano have reintroduced the Thirty-Two Hour Workweek Act, framing AI as the reason to cut the federal standard. The trial evidence is the strongest it has ever been, and it is still not the variable that decides this.
Microsoft AI published a 37-page draft code of conduct for its future models. The most quoted line says they will never resist human shutdown. Rules like that get written after somebody has seen the alternative.
Dario Amodei’s warning about AI agent swarms sparked two competing bills in Congress, one demanding a kill switch, the other seeking an outright ban on superintelligent AI.
A phone was carried onto the stage at the All-In Summit, Jensen Huang answered it, and the President of the United States spent five minutes on speakerphone calling AI safety concerns a hoax. The word was doing more work than it sounded like.
Instagram’s Following feed strips out the recommendations and shows only accounts you follow. It has existed for years, and it will not stay switched on. Australia wants to force the issue, and Adam Mosseri is arguing the other way.
California signed twelve child safety bills on September 10, including civil penalties of up to $1 million per child injured and a ban on algorithmic feeds for users under 16. The penalty is not the interesting part. The venue is.
About 30 humanoid and quadruped robots demonstrated outside Poland’s digital affairs ministry, chanting for AI rules. The organizer’s day job complicates the picture.