AI - open wide and say ‘ah!’ as the UK House of Lords debates open source This article is sponsored by:
Should LLMs and generative AI be more open and transparent? The mood music says yes. But what does ‘open’ really mean?
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NIST - responsible AI standards need your help. It's time to step up to the mark! This article is sponsored by:
NIST has called for support on a new consortium to develop responsible AI metrics. In the long run, this is likely to have a far more substantive impact on the future of AI than political gatherings that talk about not regulating AI and taking nice photos. Your help is needed.
Peer review - can the UK Parliament's House of Lords save copyright from AI giants? This article is sponsored by:
Britain’s House of Lords is hearing arguments about copyright at a time when Big Tech seems reluctant to remunerate holders.
Watchful bridges generative AI transparency gap This article is sponsored by:
Modern Large Language Models have a transparency problem, confounding efforts to reduce hallucinations and other issues. Watchful is introducing a new set of open source tools and metrics to shine a light on and reduce these.
AI Safety Summit - when Rishi met the world's richest man and it was 'squeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!' This article is sponsored by:
The British Prime Minister meets Elon Musk and the result was unedifying.
AI Safety Summit - great on the theory, but the practicalities of realistic action remain unclear This article is sponsored by:
The Bletchley Declaration is great, but as later roundtable sessions revealed, the big question is how to make any of this enforceable against bad actors?
Kamala Harris stakes claim to America being the country to build AI consensus on eve of UK-led AI Safety Summit This article is sponsored by:
The UK says it's the leader in AI safety. So does America. The EU's staking a claim here too. How easy is it going to be for everyone to 'play nicely'?
Biden gets tough with AI Executive Order as G7's principles get European Commission approval This article is sponsored by:
President Biden signs off on strong Executive Order around AI, while the G7 signs off its own international principles.
AWS to offer Sovereign Cloud for the EU. Germany's pleased, but will it go down as well elsewhere? This article is sponsored by:
AWS is making it easier for EU public sector and highly-regulated customers to adopt the platform.
UK AI Safety Summit – the diginomica preview This article is sponsored by:
On 1-2 November, a who’s who of world leaders and AI luminaries will descend on Bletchley Park. At least, that was the original plan. What do we know today?
AI pioneers call for guardrails on ‘autonomous AI’ This article is sponsored by:
AI pioneers Yoshua Bengio and Geoffrey Hinton, along with 23 other academic researchers, have called for ‘urgent governance measures’ to protect society against the danger of ‘Autonomous AI.’ They argue national institutions need strong technical expertise and the authority to act quickly.
British Government’s claim that digital exclusion is a priority is “not credible” This article is sponsored by:
The British Government’s hopes of becoming a global digital leader are being undermined by its lack of a credible strategy to tackle digital exclusion, claims the House of Lords Communications and Digital Committee.
BT’s Chief Digital and Innovation Officer on AI biases and the next generation of skills This article is sponsored by:
BT has partnered with Google Cloud to undertake a company-wide digital transformation, with AI at its core.
