What occurs subsequent? This doesn’t imply the EU goes to undertake these insurance policies outright. Next, members of the European Parliament should thrash out particulars with the Council of the European Union and the EU’s government arm, the European Commission, earlier than the draft guidelines change into legislation. The last laws will probably be a compromise between three totally different drafts from the three establishments. European lawmakers are aiming to get the AI Act in last form by December, and the regulation ought to be in pressure by 2026.
You can learn my earlier piece on the AI Act right here.
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A battle over facial recognition will make or break the AI Act
Whether to ban using facial recognition software program in public locations would be the greatest battle within the last negotiations for the AI Act. Members of the European Parliament need a full ban on the know-how, whereas EU nations need the liberty to make use of it in policing. (Politico)
AI researchers signal a letter calling for deal with present AI harms
Another open letter! This one comes from AI researchers on the ACM convention on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAccT), calling on policymakers to make use of current instruments to “design, audit, or resist AI systems to protect democracy, social justice, and human rights.” Signatories embody Alondra Nelson and Suresh Venkatasubramanian, who wrote the White House’s AI Bill of Rights.
The UK desires to be a world hub for AI regulation
The UK’s prime minister, Rishi Sunak, pitched his nation as the worldwide house of artificial-intelligence regulation. Sunak’s hope is that the UK might provide a “third way” between the EU’s AI Act and the US’s Wild West. Sunak is internet hosting a AI regulation summit in London within the fall. I’m skeptical. The UK can attempt, however finally its AI corporations will probably be compelled to adjust to the EU’s AI Act in the event that they wish to do enterprise within the influential buying and selling bloc. (Time)
YouTube might give Google an edge in AI
Google has been tapping into the wealthy video repository of its video website YouTube to coach its subsequent massive language mannequin. This materials might assist Google practice a mannequin that may generate not solely textual content however audio and video too. Apparently this isn’t misplaced on OpenAI, which has been secretly utilizing YouTube information to coach its AI fashions. (The Information)
A four-week-old AI startup raised €105 million
Talk about AI hype. Mistral, a brand-new French AI startup with no merchandise and barely any workers, has managed to lift €105 million in Europe’s largest-ever seed spherical. The founders of the corporate beforehand labored at DeepMind and Meta. Two of them had been behind the crew that developed Meta’s open-source Llama language mannequin. (Financial Times)