Artificial Intelligence

Efforts to regulate Artificial Intelligence at the state level are proliferating like mushrooms after it rains. Unfortunately, given the lack of a clear statement by Congress that the federal government can preempt such state AI laws, current legal options to stop the proliferation of state AI regulation are shaky at best.

Republicans and Democrats are now about equally likely to express concern over the increased use of artificial intelligence, but they differ widely in their trust in the United States to regulate the technology. Today, nearly identical shares of Republicans and Democrats say they are more concerned than excited about the increased use of AI in daily life—50 percent and 51 percent, respectively, according to a Pew Research Center survey of U.S. adults conducted in June.

When Chinese President Xi Jinping visited South Korea, the centerpiece of his trip wasn’t some multibillion-dollar “Art of the Deal” transaction he’d brokered. Rather, it was his proposal to establish a global organization to set AI standards. In the vacuum left by President Donald Trump—who flew home from South Korea before the conference officially started—Xi pitched a Shanghai-based group that would set rules for international AI governance. This would allow China—rather than America or Europe—to mold how the world approaches AI. These aren’t just idle prospects.

Transparency about edtech products that incorporate AI can help school administrators select systems that will provide them with the functionality they need; ensure that those systems are suited for their contexts; identify potential risks and ways to mitigate them; and push the field at large toward improved development practices, outcomes, equity, and more.

Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and Information Adam Cassady spoke at NVIDIA GTC on October 29. He spoke about National Telecommunications and Information Administration priorities, including 6G and artificial intelligence. "In AI, NTIA’s vision is just that of the Administration’s: we want the United States-led AI to power the future. Of work, of recreation, of life. And second, and more specifically at NTIA: We want to ensure that the United States leads, together with secure and trusted global partners, in the next generation of connectivity, 6G.

Two unfolding forces will shape significantly the short-term future of the Democratic Party:

For better or for worse, generative AI is already reshaping how work is done, who advances, and whose perspectives guide the next generation of tools. Generative AI tools deliver incredible efficiency gains. A study by The Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis found that the majority of respondents who used generative AI tools in the past week saved between 2-4 hours with more frequent users reporting even greater time savings.

Sens Josh Hawley (R-MO), Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), Katie Britt (R-AK), Mark Warner (D-VA), and Chris Murphy (D-CT) held a press conference introducing bipartisan legislation to protect children from AI chatbots, the GUARD Act. This legislation would:

• Ban AI companies from providing AI companions to minors. 
• Mandate that AI companions disclose their non-human status and lack of professional credentials for all users 
• Create new crimes for companies which knowingly make available to minors AI companions that solicit or produce sexual content.

OpenAI completed its long-awaited and controversial reorganization, splitting itself into a nonprofit and a for-profit that the nonprofit will control. The capital-hungry AI heavyweight's move will help it raise the piles of cash it needs to develop advanced artificial intelligence and accelerate its 

OpenAI and Character.AI are tightening safeguards after increasing reports of adults and teens forming unhealthy attachmen