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Advancing Racial Equity Through Technology Policy
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Computational Power and AI
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Zero Trust AI Governance
Aug 10, 2023
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Will a new regulation on AI help tame the machine?
“We should just be able to say, ‘We don’t want that kind of AI to be used, period, it’s too harmful for the public,’” said West.
.coda
Nov 3, 2023
Biden signs executive order to oversee and invest in AI
“It’s great to see the White House set the tone on the issues that matter most to the public: labor, civil rights, protecting privacy, promoting competition,” Myers West said by text message. “This underscores you can’t deal with the future risks of AI without adequately dealing with the present.”
NBC News
Oct 30, 2023
US House subcommittee dives into privacy, AI legislative recommendations
“We’re seeing new privacy threats emerge from AI systems; we talked about the future threats and how we don’t know where AI is going to go, but we absolutely do know what harms they’re already causing,” Kak said. “Unless we have rules of the road, we’re going to end up in a situation where this kind of state of play against consumers is entrenched.”
IAPP
Oct 19, 2023
Congress scrambles to craft AI privacy rules as industry races ahead
Kak said there is a chance now for lawmakers and regulators to take action before AI systems are “already entrenched in a particular trajectory.”
The Hill
Oct 18, 2023
Trust-busters come for AI’s building blocks
“Right now, compute seems like a more concrete input to regulate,” said Vipra, who co-authored a “Computational Power and AI” report released last week by the AI Now Institute, a New York-based think tank focused on the technology’s social implications.
Politico
Oct 2, 2023
Tech CEOs Met With Congress To Discuss The Future Of AI Regulation
Sarah Myers West and Brian Ray join AirTalk host Larry Mantle to talk about the future of AI policy.
KPCC
Sep 15, 2023
Musk, Zuckerberg Lead Parade of Tech Titans to Senate AI Event
“There’s been quite a lot of skepticism around whose views are represented and whether the concerns of the public are adequately represented here,” said Sarah Myers West, managing director of the AI Now Institute, a policy research group.
Bloomberg Law
Sep 12, 2023
The AI Crackdown Is Coming
Aware that blind trust in the benevolence of Big Tech is not an option, West and her team at the AI Now Institute this month published a new framework called “Zero Trust AI Governance.” It’s exactly what it sounds like — a call for lawmakers to take matters into their own hands.
The Atlantic
Aug 7, 2023
How judges, not politicians, could dictate America’s AI rules
“It seems like the more straightforward path [toward an AI rulebook is] to start with the existing laws on the books,” says Sarah Myers West, the managing director of the AI Now Institute, a research group.
MIT Technology Review
Jul 17, 2023
The FTC’s biggest AI enforcement tool? Forcing companies to delete their algorithms
“It really gets to the core of what is a common practice in the tech industry to use wide swaths of data, not necessarily for the purpose under which the data was originally obtained,” said Sarah Myers West, managing director of AI Now and a former FTC adviser.
Cyberscoop
Jul 5, 2023
