Ai regulation

04 Mar 24

Meta’s AI Watermarking Plan is Flimsy, At Best

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

In the past few months, we’ve seen a deepfake robocall of Joe Biden encouraging New Hampshire voters to “save your vote for the November election” and a fake endorsement of Donald Trump from Taylor Swift. It’s clear that 2024 will mark the first “AI election” in United States history.With many…

09 Feb 24

Open-Source AI Is Good for Us

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

This is a guest post. For the other side of the argument about open-source AI, see the recent guest post “Open-Source AI Is Uniquely Dangerous.“A culture war in AI is emerging between those who believe that the development of models should be restricted or unrestricted by default. In 2024, that…

08 Feb 24

Standards Matter for Cars, Plugs, WiFi—and AI?

Computer & Information Technology

Artificial intelligence holds much promise for innovation and progress, but it also has the potential to cause harm. To enable the responsible development and use of AI, the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) recently released ISO/IEC 42001, a new standard for AI management systems. According to ISO, this standard “offers…

28 Jan 24

Why Rip Off Creatives, If Generative AI Can Play Fair?

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

In recent years, AI ethicists have had a tough job. The engineers developing generative AI tools have been racing ahead, competing with each other to create models of even more breathtaking abilities, leaving both regulators and ethicists to comment on what’s already been done. One of the people working to…

12 Jan 24

Open-Source AI Is Uniquely Dangerous

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

This is a guest post. The views expressed here are solely those of the author and do not represent positions of IEEE Spectrum or the IEEE.When people think of AI applications these days, they likely think of “closed-source” AI applications like OpenAI’s ChatGPT—where the system’s software is securely held by…

27 Dec 23

Content Credentials Will Fight Deepfakes in the 2024 Elections

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

Last April, a campaign ad appeared on the Republican National Committee’s YouTube channel. The ad showed a series of images: President Joe Biden celebrating his reelection, U.S. city streets with shuttered banks and riot police, and immigrants surging across the U.S.-Mexico border. The video’s caption read: “An AI-generated look into…

27 Nov 23

Why AI Should Move Slow and Fix Things

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

Joy Buolamwini‘s AI research was attracting attention years before she received her PhD from the MIT Media Lab in 2022. As a graduate student, she made waves with a 2016 TED talk about algorithmic bias that has received more than 1.6 million views to date. In the talk, Buolamwini, who…

31 Oct 23

What You Need to Know About Biden’s Sweeping AI Order

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

The world has been waiting for the United States to get its act together on regulating artificial intelligence—particularly since it’s home to many of the powerful companies pushing at the boundaries of what’s acceptable. Today, U.S. president Joe Biden issued an executive order on AI that many experts say is…

23 Aug 23

Finding The Wisest Ways To Global AI Regulation

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

Welcome to Fixing the Future, an IEEE Spectrum podcast. I’m senior editor Eliza Strickland, and today I’m talking with Stanford University’s Russell Wald about efforts to regulate artificial intelligence. Before we launch into this episode, I’d like to let listeners know that the cost of membership in the IEEE is…

15 Jun 23

The Who, Where, and How of Regulating AI

Metallurgy & Material Science

During the past year, perhaps the only thing that has advanced as quickly as artificial intelligence is worry about artificial intelligence.In the near term, many fear that chatbots such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT will flood the world with toxic language and disinformation, that automated decision-making systems will discriminate against certain groups,…

Open-Source AI Is Good for Us

Standards Matter for Cars, Plugs, WiFi—and AI?

Why Rip Off Creatives, If Generative AI Can Play Fair?

Open-Source AI Is Uniquely Dangerous

Content Credentials Will Fight Deepfakes in the 2024 Elections

Why AI Should Move Slow and Fix Things

What You Need to Know About Biden’s Sweeping AI Order

Finding The Wisest Ways To Global AI Regulation

The Who, Where, and How of Regulating AI

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