Founder tips on building boards and companies. Distributed training meets AI policy. US and UK cybersecurity guidelines. AI Insight Forum this week. Plus, what if deepfakes go nuclear?

Consider

• Culture and mission orientation: “The big thing is really just maintaining the culture and the mission orientation as we grow…how do you maintain that focus at scale” (Brad Lightcap, OpenAI COO; more here)
• Leadership: “It should just be good self-reflection and good leadership to anticipate the failure points so as to avoid them…People did not imagine this was possible” (Josh Wolfe, Lux Capital Partner)
• Corporate structure: “The leadership crisis raised questions about the company’s governance structure,” including its hybrid governance (more here)
• Looking ahead, will risks of concentration of power, governance, and open systems get more focus?

What’s next

• OpenAI shares immediate priorities: advancing research and full-stack safety efforts, continuing product delivery, building out a diverse board and improving governance structures (including an independent investigation)

Policy

Americas

• U.S. Senate AI ‘Insight Forum’ #7
• California’s privacy watchdog eyes AI rules with opt-out and access rights

Europe

• US, Britain, and over a dozen more sign an AI framework urges developers to work securely
• European Central Bank: Reports of AI ending human labour may be greatly exaggerated

Asia

• Shenzhen and Hong Kong to launch cross-border data verification platform

Responsible AI

Company-building

• The 10-year “overnight” success story of Casetext (Y Combinator)
• Responsible AI Commitments and Protocol for Startups and Investors (RIL)

Governance

• Founder tips on building boards (Brian Halligan, Hubspot Co-Founder)

Privacy and security

• What every healthcare founder should know before running ads (PhaseLab)
• Assessing the security posture of a widely used vision model: YOLOv7 (Trail of Bits, more here)

Product and alignment

• Model alignment protects against accidental harms, not intentional ones (Princeton; ANU)
• Europe’s first independent research lab dedicated to AI open science (Kyutai)
• ICYMI: Everything you need to know about the NIST AI Risk Management Framework (Trustible)

Where AI is going

Capabilities

• When deepfakes go nuclear
• DeepMind’s method for distributed training ‘breaks AI policy’ (Jack Clark, Anthropic Co-Founder)

Society and technology

• US Rep. Hill: We expect to pass crypto oversight and stablecoin bills in early 2024
• China will cooperate with US on military talks, AI, but warns of Taiwan 'abyss'

Stack and ecosystem

• How much does it cost to use an LLM? (Tom Tunguz)
• Opinion: Y Combinator's future in software (Samo Burja)

Releases, raises, more

• Releases: Stability AI’s SDXL Turbo (text to image), Vulavula (AI for African languages), Amazon Q (assistant), Meta’s CICERO (agent), Pika (AI video making/editing)
• Raises: AI21 ($208M, enterprise AI), Cradle ($24M, protein design), Artisan AI ($2.3M, agents), Wormhole ($225M, Web3)
• More: Imbue and Dell partner on $150M high performance computing system

Extra bits

• A data-driven look at the rise of AI (Cerebral Valley)
• 3D model prediction from 2D images (Adobe Research)
• What are AI chatbots actually doing when they ‘hallucinate’? (Northeastern)
• ICYMI: GraphCast: AI model for faster, more accurate weather forecasting (DeepMind)