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latest edition explores implications around: (1) making sense of the rapid displacement of startups and “the best model” rat race, (2) how “artifacts of humanity” and Content Credentials will become a human flex of sorts… https://lnkd.in/ecGZKMvr

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To all those who saw or followed our post about the new U.S. Congress dataset on Hugging Face for policy areas and subjects... At the suggestion of Marci Harris of POPVOX Foundation, our team at DreamProIT now created a new dataset that includes Congressional committees: https://lnkd.in/gzACiADG With this data set, it should be possible to suggest committees to refer any bill to. As with subjects and policy areas, automating recommendations would not replace the judgment of subject matter experts, but could provide a baseline to show what committee would be assigned based on prior precedents of the House and Senate Parliamentarians. #data #uscongress #library

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#podcast Fadi Micaelian, CEO of SPARKDIT, is an AI strategist who brings insights into using generative AI to support political consultants and voters. These voters are weighing choices and making tradeoffs as they decide who to financially support and vote for. Using additional data points to predict voting behavior is increasingly essential as voters become more partisan and face pressure from friends and family to make decisions about candidates and issues.  We talk about training AI to think like humans, using tradeoff criteria to improve predictive models to identify likely voters & how voters make decisions. #SPARKDIT #AI #VoterSegmentation #PoliticalMessages #Voters SPARKDIT.com https://lnkd.in/g3Xa5X-j

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I recently wrote a report for the Institute for Institute for AI Policy Research and Oversight (IAIPRO) on the challenges of AI for Government departments #AI, #AIGovernance, #AIEthics, #ResponsibleAI, #AIPolicy, #AIRegulation, #AIInnovation, #AIAdoption, #AIForGood, #AIAccountability, #AITransparency, #AIBias, #AISecurity, #AIPrivacy, #FutureOfGovernment, #DigitalTransformation, #GovernmentInnovation, #PublicSectorAI, #EthicalAI, #TrustInAI, #AIForPublicGood, #AISkills, #AIWorkforce, #AIEducation, #AIResearch, #AICollaboration, #AILeadership, #AIStrategy, #AIFuture, #EmergingTech, #InnovativeGovernment, #NVIDA

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Essential #AI thoughts from Fei-Fei Li. I was honored to hear her speak about AI years ago at orientation for new fellows at The Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans and I never forgot her wisdom and prescience. She heads up HAI (Human-Centered AI at Stanford University. Q: What do you you think about AI’s future, what worries you the most, and what gives you hope? A: It’s not AI’s future, it’s humanity’s future. We don’t talk about electricity’s future, we don’t talk about steam’s future. At the end of the day, it is our future, our species’ future, and our civilization’s future—in the context of AI. #futureofeducation #futureofwork

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This article serves as your regular reminder that every agency is looking to become an AI enforcement agency. Samuel Levine, the FTC's Director of the Bureau of Consumer Protection, argues that "Congress giving us back that tool [restitution] to get money back to people who get scammed, and making sure we have the resources to take on what we fear will be a real scourge of AI-related fraud, is essential to us doing our job." This has been a pretty consistent argument from the FTC, ever since a unanimous Supreme Court ruled in 2021 that Section 13(b) of the FTC Act did not authorize use of that provision to seek restitution. But that "giving us back" is doing a lot of work. As Justice Breyer wrote in AMG Capital Management, "We must conclude... that §13(b) ... does not grant the Commission authority to obtain equitable monetary relief." In other words, the FTC has never had restitution authority under §13(b). There is nothing to "give back." That issue aside, any company making claims about the capabilities of their AI systems are on notice that the FTC is watching. This is not a "Big Tech" issue - any company, small or large, can be held liable for violations of the FTC's consumer protection authority. And companies entering into settlements with the FTC are often subject to a 20-year consent decree. #ai #artificialintelligence #federaltradecommission #ftc

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Join us for an important conversation next week about platform design and elections with Glenn E., Ravi Iyer, Kaili L., and Nicole Schneidman - how is tech getting in the way and/or facilitating election integrity? 🤔 https://lu.ma/59uxawc5

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Securing AI doesn't mean stifling innovation, I review advice https://lnkd.in/eBQrneGi plus Rashmi Ramesh on AI's data drought, & Tom Field reviews ISMG's North America Midwest Cybersecurity Summit. Moderated by Anna Delaney #AI #cybersecurity #ismg

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AI tools, particularly LLMs, are everywhere. Used well, they can often increase efficiencies and lend a competitive edge. Yet, as David Darais notes in this Q&A, "There are tons of security issues, but there seems to be not much interest in plugging the holes. No one is taking it seriously." This group interview was a fun one - a chance for me to dig into the oft-ignored privacy and security challenges presented by haphazard adoption of AI/ML tools, as well as the opportunities being actively explored by cutting-edge research into how to better understand and safely take advantage of these new technologies. David sums it up well at the very end of the article: "There's an analogous story we tell in the cybersecurity world: Security is very much Whack-a-Mole. You build a system and discover, 'It could be hacked in this way,' and then you patch it. Then you find out 'It could be hacked in that way,' so you patch it again. Galois, Inc.'s whole Formal Methods approach to software engineering is trying to get to a place where you’ve just solved the problem and you’re not playing Whack-a-Mole when this or that pops up. You can tell the exact same story with AI/ML tools and privacy or security. Like, we can play Whack-a-Mole on this privacy leak here and that privacy leak there.... Or, using these cryptography and data privacy techniques, you can just solve the problem and you’re done playing Whack-a-Mole. So what future do we want to be in? The Whack-a-Mole future or the problem-solved future?”

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Four veteran senators are calling on Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-NY) and his AI working group to develop a framework for addressing extreme risks posed by artificial intelligence, “including biological, chemical, cyber, and nuclear threats,” while offering several options for oversight of AI frontier models. “Congress should consider a permanent framework to mitigate extreme risks. This framework should also serve as the basis for international coordination to mitigate extreme risks posed by AI. This letter is an attempt to start a dialogue about the need for such a framework, which would be in addition to, not at the exclusion of, proposals focused on other risks presented by developments in AI,” according to the April 16 letter from Sens. Mitt Romney (R-UT), Jack Reed (D-RI), Jerry Moran (R-KS) and Angus King (I-ME). READ MORE: #artificialintelligence

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I have a very laissez faire view of digital footprints — the kind that I’m sure will scare Glenn Gore and the most staunch arbiters of privacy. As a digital native, I see how my data identity has been used to the best of effects. My TikTok algorithm is a beautiful work of (relatable) art: my Instagram, an unending funnel of things I didn’t know I needed to buy. I’m quite certain I’ll go mad if one day my digital identity gets reset. Sometimes I wonder how it got to this. My logic is that my data is always being mined and used six ways come Sunday. It’s inevitable the more digitally connected we are. Today, with the rising trend of online scams, there’s an even higher need to protect and identify consumers. And how do you identify consumers? Through the exchange of data. It’s all very poetic really — the thing that will protect us is also the very thing that we need to surrender. It’s why I still retain mixed feelings about what Gore has to say about data: “At Affinidi, securing digital identities is a priority as we navigate an increasingly digitised society, ensuring individuals can confidently claim their digital existence.” But can we though? Do we need to? I’m not sure. For me, the digital data surrender is an inevitability, so the Internet might as well deliver me information that I need and may enjoy — like a tinted serum from Rationale or a pair of wide-leg pants from Marakech. Still, I admire Gore’s sense of hope with his North Star at the Temasek-funded firm — “Where your personal data is as intrinsic to you as your physical self and treated with the utmost respect and privacy.” Because in a world where data is as easy to mine, dole, and exchange as promises and opinions, hope is perhaps the very thing that we need. Have a read.

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“We are witnessing a reversal of the Internet policy model of technological governance,” writes Adam Thierer: “In the 1990s, Congress and the Clinton administration worked together to create a national framework for digital commerce and speech. This framework preempted state and local activity in various ways and helped ensure that online innovators could generate new platforms and products without fear of a dreaded patchwork of confusing compliance regimes thwarting their efforts. Now we’re seeing the reverse: State and local governments are taking the regulatory lead and our increasingly dysfunctional Congress is struggling to even get basic things done. The Working Group report should have said something more about this problem and identified ways to deal with it through targeted preemptions.” I think Adam is onto something here, with respect to states taking the lead, thus creating a diversity of approaches across our laboratories of democracy — ain’t federalism grand — but the I’d posit that the influence of European Union’s actions on technology policy seem likely to be far more relevant globally than the last decade of Congressional inaction on privacy and AI, much less this Senate study.

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Today, I had 2 articles published on TVNewsCheck! 🔥 In the first piece, "Countering Google’s AI Summaries: A Survival Guide For News Organizations", I explore the new zero-click search experience that AI Overviews create and why news orgs should be concerned. 😨 But then in the second piece "Surviving Google’s AI Overviews: Expert Strategies For News-Based Publishers", I review solutions and share tips from industry experts to help news publishers deal with Google AI Overviews. 💻💡 A huge thanks to the brilliant minds who shared their insights: - David Arkin from David Arkin Consulting - Eric Openshaw from Clearlink - Michael Newman from Graham Media Group - Colin Benedict from Morgan Murphy Media Their expert strategies will help publishers navigate this AI-driven world. 🤖 🌍 Read the full article here: https://lnkd.in/drKQvSQa #NewsIndustry #OnlinePublishing #ZeroClickSearches #DigitalStrategy #WebTraffic #SearchEngines #GoogleUpdates #FutureOfNews #JournalismTrends #ContentMarketing #AIWriting #TechNews #MediaInsights #AIOverviews #NewsPublishers #SEO #AI #TVnewscheck #AISummaries #Journalism #ZeroClickSearch #RevenueModels Michael Depp Kathy Haley

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