Mark Kennedy’s speech at the BGF Conference “AIWS – New Democracy” Harvard University Loeb House, November 25, 2024 During my first year in Congress in 2001, I faced a vote on whether to maintain Normal Trade Relations with the People’s Republic of China (PRC). I...
Former officials say the incoming president will expand tech controls on China, as the rivalry with Beijing promises to loom large for his administration. The containment policy set in the first Trump administration and continued under President Biden is expected to...
Some Japanese researchers feel that AI systems trained on foreign languages cannot grasp the intricacies of Japanese language and culture. Japan is building its own versions of ChatGPT — the artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot made by US firm OpenAI that became a...
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Senator Richard Blumenthal, Democrat of Connecticut, and Senator Josh Hawley, Republican of Missouri, plan to announce a sweeping framework to regulate artificial intelligence, in the latest effort by Congress to catch up with the technology. The leaders of the Senate...
The Commons Science, Innovation and Technology Committee of MPs in the UK has outlined 12 challenges that policy makers need to address in setting terms for the governance of AI deployments: The Bias challenge: AI can introduce or perpetuate biases that society finds...
The Boston Global Forum introduces an op-ed of Amandeep Singh Gill and Tshilidzi Marwala, published in the Daily Maverick (Zimbabwe). Amandeep Gill is United Nations Secretary-General's Envoy on Technology. The Boston Global Forum honored Gill with the World Leader in...
Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly announced on August 18, 2023 that she has directed executive branch agencies to adopt a statewide policy on generative AI that outlines how the technology can be used safely. A new policy for the state of Kansas outlines how artificial...
Arati Prabhakar, the Science Advisor to President Joe Biden, emphasized the need for collaboration between the United States and India to shape the development and deployment of artificial intelligence (AI) in a responsible and beneficial manner. The Biden...