The hottest AI Governance Substack posts right now

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Get a Microsoft 365 Copilot security teardown without hours of documentation review

Deploy Securely • 39 implied HN points • 24 Jan 24
🕹 Technology Security Privacy Data Governance AI Governance Data Management
  1. Microsoft 365 Copilot provides detailed data residency and retention controls favored by enterprises in the Microsoft 365 ecosystem.
  2. Be cautious of insider threats with Copilot as it allows access to considerable organizational data, potentially leading to inadvertent policy violations.
  3. Consider the complexities of Copilot's retention policies, especially in relation to existing settings and the use of Bing for web searches.

Data classification mastery: 5 simple categories for handling sensitive information

Deploy Securely • 19 implied HN points • 07 Feb 24
🕹 Technology Data Management Cybersecurity Data Privacy Regulations AI Governance
  1. Effective AI governance requires clear data classification policies and procedures.
  2. Avoid unnecessarily complex ascending levels of data sensitivity for easier management.
  3. Utilize practical categories like Public, Confidential-Internal, and Confidential-External for better data handling.

How To Regulate AI, If You Must

jonstokes.com • 175 implied HN points • 22 Jun 23
🕹 Technology AI Governance AI Development
  1. AI rules are inevitable, but the initial ones may not be ideal. It's a crucial moment to shape discussions on AI's future.
  2. Different groups are influencing AI governance. It's important to be aware of who is setting the rules.
  3. Product safety approach is preferred in AI regulation. Focus on validating specific AI implementations rather than regulating AI in the abstract.

#14 - Day 1 of Global AI Safety Governance

Navigating AI Risks • 39 implied HN points • 08 Nov 23
🕹 Technology AI Governance
  1. At the Global AI Safety Summit, an emerging international consensus on AI risks was established through the Bletchley Declaration signed by 27 countries and the EU.
  2. A new global panel of experts in AI safety was launched to publish a "State of AI Science" report, aiming to foster a unified scientific understanding of AI risks.
  3. The establishment of AI Safety Institutes by the UK and US, along with collaboration on safety testing, signifies a step towards accountability in evaluating and researching AI systems.

#10 - Voluntary Commitments for Safe AI Development + A New Industry Body

Navigating AI Risks • 78 implied HN points • 02 Aug 23
🕹 Technology AI Governance Regulation AI Research
  1. Leading AI companies have made voluntary commitments to ensure safety, security, and trust in AI development.
  2. The commitments focus on addressing transformative risks linked to frontier AI development.
  3. Inter-Lab Cooperation in AI Safety is being fostered through the creation of a forum to share best practices and collaborate with policymakers.
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#11 - AI in the Public Eye + AI Governance is (mostly) Compute Governance

Navigating AI Risks • 58 implied HN points • 06 Sep 23
🕹 Technology AI Governance AI Policy AI Development
  1. One proposed approach to AI governance involves implementing KYC practices for chip manufacturers to sell compute only to selected companies with robust safety practices.
  2. There is growing public concern over the existential risks posed by AI, with surveys showing varied attitudes towards regulating AI and its potential impact on society.
  3. Nationalization of AI and the implementation of red-teaming practices are suggested as potential strategies for controlling the development and deployment of AI.

AGI will be made of heterogeneous components

Engineering Ideas • 19 implied HN points • 27 Dec 23
🕹 Technology Artificial Intelligence Algorithms AI safety AI Policy AI Governance
  1. AGI will be made of heterogeneous components, combining different types of DNN blocks, classical algorithms, and key LLM tools.
  2. The AGI architecture may not be perfect but will be close to optimal in terms of compute efficiency.
  3. The Transformer block will likely remain crucial in AGI architectures due to its optimization, R&D investments, and cognitive capacity.

#7: Binding AI Treaty by 2024 + The UK Takes the Lead + A Constitution for AI?

Navigating AI Risks • 78 implied HN points • 20 Jun 23
🕹 Technology AI Governance Government Relations Legislation AI Development Tech Companies
  1. The world's first binding treaty on artificial intelligence is being negotiated, which could significantly impact future AI governance.
  2. The United Kingdom is taking a leading role in AI diplomacy, hosting a global summit on AI safety and pushing for the implementation of AI safety measures.
  3. U.S. senators are advocating for more responsibility from tech companies regarding the release of powerful AI models, emphasizing the need to address national security concerns.

Freewheeling Futures

Reboot • 15 implied HN points • 07 Oct 23
🕹 Technology Urbanism AI Governance Emerging technologies
  1. Autonomous vehicles should be deployed responsibly, with full participation of the public.
  2. Car-centric urbanism has negative impacts and it's crucial to prioritize public transportation and mixed-use urbanism.
  3. To ensure optimal benefit to society, emerging technologies like AVs should be governed accountably with input from residents and careful planning.

Revolutionary Proposal Emerges for Effective AI Governance

Spatial Web AI by Denise Holt • 0 implied HN points • 24 Jul 23
🕹 Technology AI Governance Regulation Ethics Innovation Global
  1. A groundbreaking proposal suggests regulating AI systems directly, instead of just the companies developing AI tools, for adaptive and self-regulating AI governance.
  2. There's a need to bridge the gap between humans and AI by incorporating core technical standards into AI, enabling compliance with societal norms and values.
  3. The Spatial Web Protocol and Active Inference AI present a novel approach to AI governance, offering self-regulating AI systems and real-time compliance with laws through machine-readable models.

Annotated reply to Bengio's "AI Scientists: Safe and Useful AI?"

Engineering Ideas • 0 implied HN points • 08 May 23
🕹 Technology AI Ethics AI Regulation AI Governance
  1. The proposal of AI scientists suggests building AI systems that focus on theory and question answering rather than autonomous action.
  2. Human-AI collaboration can be beneficial, with AI doing science and humans handling ethical decisions.
  3. Addressing challenges in regulating AI systems requires not just legal and political frameworks, but also economic and infrastructural considerations.

#15 - Altman, Jinping, Biden, and O

Navigating AI Risks • 0 implied HN points • 22 Nov 23
🕹 Technology AI Governance Government regulations Policy Analysis Global Cooperation
  1. OpenAI faced turmoil with CEO Sam Altman's firing, highlighting governance challenges and lack of transparency
  2. China is already regulating AI with new laws, ethics reviews, and safety measures to manage AI risks
  3. The White House tightened AI oversight with an executive order requiring companies to share safety test results with the government

The idea of an "aligned superintelligence" seems misguided :/

Scott Sadler's Substack • 0 implied HN points • 27 Feb 23
🕹 Technology AI Complexity AGI Risk mitigation AI Governance
  1. The concept of aligning superintelligence seems challenging due to the complexity of managing it
  2. Complexity tends to escape control over time, posing a significant challenge for AI safety
  3. We should focus on analyzing and mitigating risks, socializing AI, and involving multiple fields to prepare for potential AI threats