Schumer’s AI Forum today. UK AI Safety Summit next week.  Inflection AI, DeepMind, Guild Education, scientists, and VCs on product, society, and more. Using AI on human-robot teams, space stations, and live brains. Plus, can generative AI learn to innovate?

Policy

Americas

• Biden Administration’s Alan Davidson, Stanford’s Fei-Fei Li share their regulatory outlook, including a preview of the cross-sector coalition convened by Responsible Innovation Labs (more here)
• VCs Marc Andreessen, John Doerr among attendees at Schumer’s AI Forum (more here, here)
• NYC is stepping up, with AI Action Plan and Office of Algorithmic Data Integrity proposal
• AI-caused financial crisis ‘nearly unavoidable’ without regulation, says SEC Chair Gensler

Europe

• AI Safety Summit: Day 1 and 2 Program
• Frontier AI Taskforce brings in leading technical organizations to research risks

More

• China has a new plan for judging AI safety —and it’s packed with details
• WHO outlines considerations for regulation of AI for health
• FBI’s Wray says AI has been used to amplify ‘terrorist propaganda’

Responsible AI

Product and alignment

• Inflection AI’s Suleyman on uncertainty estimation (more here)
• DeepMind on evaluating social and ethical risks from generative AI
• Bloomberg Beta’s Karin Klein and Workday’s Chief Privacy Officer on responsible AI at the company level at Fortune MPW 2023

Security and trust

• AI developers are failing on transparency in new index on foundation models
• OpenAI’s flagship AI model has gotten more trustworthy but easier to trick (more here)
• Google bulks up Android’s malware defenses to combat new tricks, including AI

Science and health

• Living guidelines for generative AI — why scientists must oversee its use
• AI used in identifying an antimalarial drug that can reverse osteoporosis

Teams and workforce

• Lean back or lean in? Exploring social loafing in human–robot teams
• Guild’s new skills package to connect frontline workers with career pathways for AI
• Sam Altman and Vinod Khosla on AI’s impact on the future of work at WSJ Tech Live

Education

• American Federation of Teachers partners with AI identification startup, GPTZero
• Being a university’s first Chief AI Officer

Resources

• AI Standards Hub Database (The Alan Turing Institute, UK)
• SWE-bench dataset, includes real-world GitHub issues (Princeton NLP)
• Commercializing AI in healthcare: The enterprise buyer perspective (a16z)
• Using AI in ways that enhance worker dignity and inclusion (Charter)

Where AI is going

Humanity

• Minds of machines: The great AI consciousness conundrum
• Interviews with ‘AI Godfathers’ Yann LeCun and Yoshua Bengio
• AI is resurrecting the dead, with or without permission
• How AI will shape our children’s future

Capabilities

• To excel at engineering design, generative AI must learn to innovate, study finds
• A DEEPer (squared) dive into AI-assisted, live brain imaging
• AI and 10 seconds of voice can screen for diabetes, new study

Information

• Will 2024 elections be safe from AI?: US Rep. Lieu, expert Nanjira Sambuli (more here)
• Google says data-scraping lawsuit would "take a sledgehammer" to generative AI
• AI chatbots could help plan bioweapon attacks, new report
• Opinion: AI’s content moderation moment is here (Tech Policy Press)

Earth and space

• Startups and researchers locate critical mineral deposits with AI
• AI-powered lasers could zap space debris away from collision courses
• How Meta is creating custom silicon for AI and ‘mind-blowing’ IBM chip speeds up AI

Society and technology

• How Israeli tech workers are using AI to help identify victims
• Israel-Hamas war threatens burgeoning Palestinian tech community
• Opinion: The techno-optimist manifesto (a16z)

Releases and raises

• Releases: Fuyu-8B (multimodal, Adept), DINOv2 (vision, Meta), ERNIE 4 (LLM, Baidu)
• Raises: Zhipu AI ($342M), Nirvana Insurance ($57M)
• More: Foxconn, Nvidia team up on ‘AI factories’, Inside AI-related changes at Greycroft

Additional resources

• DEI Term Sheet Clause (VentureESG, Diversity VC)
• Content Credentials, more here (Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity)