Welcome to this week’s edition of What's Happening in AI, covering the latest in policy, responsible AI, and where AI is going for the Responsible Innovation Labs community.

Below: New US and UK proposals, AI “ghost” workers, OpenAI red teaming, Anthropic Responsible Scaling policy, Klaviyo IPO, DALL-E 3, and talks by Bill Gurley, Ray Dalio, and more.

Policy

Americas:

• Senators Wyden, Booker and Rep. Clarke introduce bill to regulate use of AI in housing, employment, and education
• Microsoft’s Brad Smith comments on Senators Hawley, Blumenthal’s proposal on licenses and White House voluntary commitments
• Tech giants agree AI regulation is needed at AI Insight Summit (more here, here, and here)
• Senators Klobuchar, Hawley, Coons, Collins introduce AI in elections bill (more here)
• California State Senator proposes regulation of AI frontier models

Europe:

• UK antitrust regulator lays out seven AI principles (more here)
• The EU's Digital Services Act package is here. But how strict will enforcers be?
• How Silicon Valley doomers are shaping Rishi Sunak’s AI plans
• New UK government advisory service to help businesses launch AI
• UK’s ‘high-risk, high-reward’ research agency starts to take shape

Asia:

• Taiwan Digital Minister Audrey Tang discusses AI and democracy in New York
• China and EU hold talks on AI, cross-border data flow amid renewed tensions

Responsible AI

Privacy and security:

• OpenAI launches a red teaming network to make its models more robust
• Confidence-building measures for AI from OpenAI Geopolitics Team and UCBerkeley lab
• OpenCRE, a security-specialized chatbot (more here)

Workers:

• Amazon, Alphabet, Microsoft, Meta probed on use of AI ‘ghost’ staff (more here)
• Autoworkers prepare to strike for a place in the EV future
• Teachers are going all in on generative AI

Science and health:

• Inceptive CEO and Transformers author Jakob Uszkoreit wants to reinvent vaccines
• Elon Musk’s Neuralink is recruiting patients for its first human trial
• DeepMind is using AI to pinpoint the causes of genetic disease
• Chan Zuckerberg Science to build AI GPU cluster to model cell systems

Information:

• TikTok introduces a way to label AI-generated content
• JusticeText taps AI to transcribe evidence for public defenders

Resources:

• Responsible Scaling Policy (Anthropic)
• Guidance for use of generative AI tools at work (Aspen Digital)
• CulturaX: Dataset for LLMs in 167 languages (HuggingFace)
• Fine-tune your own Llama 2 (Github Repo)

Where AI is going

Humanity and nations:

• Ray Dalio on the rise and fall of nations and the changing world order at All-In Summit
• Artifact co-founder Kevin Systrom doesn’t believe in AI doomerism
• Computer scientist Richard Sutton on AI Succession at World AI Conference

Autonomous and dexterous:

• Teaching robots new behaviors and use cases in homes (more here)
• Champion-level drone racing using deep reinforcement learning

Competition:

• Bill Gurley warns against regulatory capture in AI (more here)
• Google's legal saga is only just beginning (more here)

Blockchain and consumers:

• AI and blockchain, with NEAR founder and Transformers author Illia Polosukhin
• Why we need to examine the motivations and effects of Latinos’ fintech adoption

Compute:

• SambaNova’s new chip, claimed by CEO Rodrigo Liang to collapse costs to “1/25 of the industry-standard approach”
• Huawei’s Meng Wanzhou sets AI as the next decade’s focus despite US sanctions

Releases, raises, and partnerships:

• Releases: DALL-E 3 integrates with ChatGPT (OpenAI), Microsoft Copilot, Bard integrates with Google services, Anyscale Endpoints, Stable Audio (Stability AI), MADLAD-400 dataset spans 419 languages (Google)
• Raises: Klaviyo’s IPO, Databricks (data, $500M), Generate:Biomedicines (biotech, $273M), Helsing (defense, $223M), Writer (text, $100M), Corti (health, $60M)
• Partnerships: Roblox acquires voice moderation startup Speechly

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