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Only Congress can tap brakes on AI

You could almost hear palms smacking onto foreheads all over the techier corners of the internet last week, after a Google artificial intelligence program began generating pictures of Black founding fathers, a female Pope and other notions that would exist only in the most fringe-progressive ...

Senate sends two AI child porn bills to House

MORGANTOWN — The Senate advanced two bills to the House on Tuesday, both aimed at combating AI-era child pornography. SB 740 criminalizes altering a photograph, image, video clip, movie, or recording containing sexually explicit conduct by inserting the image of an actual minor so it ...

Small but welcome step in prying open AI’s black box

by Parmy Olson Sorry, OpenAI. The European Union is making life for the leaders of artificial intelligence much less private. A newly agreed draft of the region’s upcoming AI Act will force the maker of ChatGPT and other companies to share previously hidden details about how they ...

Biden did his part. Now Congress must address AI

On Monday, President Joe Biden signed an executive order to put guardrails in place as artificial intelligence and large language models continue to be developed and released for public and commercial use. The order came just ahead of this week’s global summit on AI safety. We can’t ...

Don’t let ChatGPT write fan fiction

by Stephen L. Carter The most interesting part of the Hollywood writers’ new contract is the AI clause. According to news reports, it explicitly allows the studios to “train” large language models on scripts written by members of the Writers Guild. The agreement implies that ...

The societal disruption of artificial intelligence

by Kevin Frazier Who decided the world should be disrupted by AI? Do you recall receiving a voter pamphlet on the pros and cons of AI development and deployment? Was I the only one who missed election day? The truth of the matter is that the most impactful decisions about AI are ...