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AI Generated Business: The Rise of AGI and the Rush to Find a Working Revenue Model
Nov 21, 2024
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See AllCalifornians would lose AI protections under bill advancing in Congress
It’s reasonable to interpret one of the exceptions to mean states like California could continue enforcing privacy law if this bill passed, said Amba Kak, codirector of The AI Now Institute, a research and equitable AI advocacy organization. But doing so is risky. “We can’t count on the fact that courts will see it this way, especially in the context of an otherwise sweeping moratorium with the clear intention to clamp down on AI-related enforcement,” she said.
May 16, 2025
US AI laws risk becoming more ‘European’ than Europe’s
At the state level, there is “incredible momentum” to fill the regulatory vacuum created by Washington’s inaction, according to Amba Kak, executive director of the AI Now Institute. States are determined to tackle the most “abhorrent, harmful and problematic” use cases of AI, she says.
May 15, 2025
Phase two of military AI has arrived
But the complexity of AI systems, which pull from thousands of pieces of data, make that a herculean task for humans, says Heidy Khlaaf, who is chief AI scientist at the AI Now Institute, a research organization, and previously led safety audits for AI-powered systems. “‘Human in the loop’ is not always a meaningful mitigation,” she says.
Apr 15, 2025
Generative AI is learning to spy for the US military
Khlaaf adds that even if humans are “double-checking” the work of AI, there’s little reason to think they’re capable of catching every mistake. “‘Human-in-the-loop’ is not always a meaningful mitigation,” she says. When an AI model relies on thousands of data points to come to conclusions, “it wouldn’t really be possible for a human to sift through that amount of information to determine if the AI output was erroneous.
Apr 11, 2025
