Mariam Baksh

President-elect Trump praised a commitment to transparency in his choice to lead the Securities and Exchange Commission, where the future of a controversial proposed rule to govern broker-dealers' use of artificial intelligence remains in question.

Organizers of an effort to establish liability protections for those doing adversarial tests to validate the trustworthiness of artificial intelligence systems are regrouping after noting that a recent decision by the U.S. Copyright Office was only a “partial win.”

Participants in a Brookings Institution effort to consider how government can oversee equitable implementation of artificial intelligence are encouraging incoming Trump administration policymakers to think beyond harm reduction to democratizing control over how the technology is developed and deployed.

Colorado lawmakers should strengthen a law that was hailed as the “first in the nation” to address concerns about artificial intelligence following the release of large language models, by removing loopholes and expanding enforcement options, according to a coalition of public-interest groups.

Researchers at Stanford University's Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence are warning of inconsistencies in the development and implementation of benchmarks used to assess the technology for aspects like performance and bias, and highlighting a need for best practices and standardization in application of the testing methodology.

Economists convened by the nonprofit tech company Mozilla recognized a need to address concerns about the potential misuse of artificial intelligence systems while arguing for policies that avoid limiting “open source” forms of the technology.

The Future of Privacy Forum is planning to focus more attention on what it says is a desire among deployers of artificial intelligence for a degree of standardization in conducting the impact assessments policymakers in U.S. states and jurisdictions around the world increasingly require.

A coalition of environmental and tech-industry accountability groups led by Public Citizen is calling on the Biden administration to consider public well-being and refrain from bypassing regular procedures in order to increase power generation in the interest of helping U.S. developers of artificial intelligence.

The Center for Data Innovation is calling for a major attitude adjustment from policymakers in the interest of advancing the safety of open-source artificial intelligence models, following a workshop the group led with stakeholders in Beijing on the importance of full and equal international cooperation.

Former Google CEO and artificial intelligence investor Eric Schmidt is proposing a grand bargain for the incoming Trump administration in which the government would get access to artificial intelligence models and related national security benefits in exchange for expediting energy supplies to the tech industry.