Tag: Artificial Intelligence

Proportional oversight for AI model updates can boost AI adoption (Amin Oueslati, Robin Staes-Polet, Toni Lorente – OECD.AI)

When we talk about technological breakthroughs, we tend to focus on what is shiny and new. For artificial intelligence, that means there’s a lot...

Are We Ready for a ‘DeepSeek for Bioweapons’? (Steven Adler – Lawfare)

The announcement of a powerful new artificial intelligence (AI) model is a leading indicator that many similar AI models are close behind. The January...

Uncensored AI models pose an urgent risk to global security (Tom Saxton – The Strategist)

The global AI race is rapidly accelerating, with states and corporations investing billions into AI for commercial, strategic and defence purposes. But a byproduct...

UK’s Royal Navy to use AI for ‘hostile’ threats, including Russian movements in Arctic (Interesting Engineering)

Russia’s war efforts in Ukraine show no signs of slowing down any time soon. The UK has now gone on alert regarding the Russians’...

AI regulation fight heats up over US federal moratorium (DigWatch)

The US House of Representatives has passed a budget bill containing a 10-year moratorium on the enforcement of state-level artificial intelligence laws. With broad...

Trump’s Gulf AI gambit to reshape the Middle East tech landscape (Nadeem Ahmed Moonakal, Megha Shrivastava – The Interpreter)

While the world watched Donald Trump’s high-profile visit to the Middle East alongside Silicon Valley’s biggest names, only a few would have anticipated that...

AI-Driven Productivity Scenarios (Paul Samson, S. Yash Kalash, Nikolina Zivkovic – CIGI)

Technological development and diffusion are rapidly transforming economic, financial and societal systems. Policy and legal frameworks may be unable to keep pace with approaches...

AI regulation offers development opportunity for Latin America (DigWatch)

Latin America is uniquely positioned to lead on AI governance by leveraging its social rights-focused policy tradition, emerging tech ecosystems, and absence of legacy...

AI to disrupt jobs, warns DeepMind CEO, as Gen Alpha faces new realities (DigWatch)

AI will likely cause significant job disruption in the next five years, according to Demis Hassabis, CEO of Google DeepMind. Speaking on the Hard...

AI, Tech, and the Future of US-Gulf Relations (Middle East Institute)

Hosts Alistair Taylor and Matthew Czekaj speak with MEI Senior Fellow Mohammed Soliman about President Donald Trump’s recent trip to Saudi Arabia, the UAE,...

Australia’s AI ambitions hinge on collaboration with China (East Asia Forum)

Australia faces a challenging path forward for AI development amid the US–China tech rivalry. Long-standing alliances with the US sit awkwardly with extensive economic...

How extremists are manipulating AI chatbots (James Paterson – The Interpreter)

In an environment where people are feeling increasingly dislocated and disconnected, Artificial Intelligence (AI) chatbots have proven themselves a compelling form of social connection....

On the Path to AI Sovereignty, AI Agency Offers a Shortcut (Aubra Anthony – Lawfare)

Artificial intelligence’s (AI’s) explosive evolution from a niche field of academic study to a ubiquitous and loudly hyped headline has created a pressing sense...

The case for a resounding framework for AI-biotech convergence (Lakshmy Ramakrishnan – Observer Research Foundation)

While the convergence of AI with biotechnology holds immense potential for innovative developments in science and medicine it also carries the scope for misuse....

The Future of AI is Sovereign: How it Evolves is Up to Us (Trisha Ray, Observer Research Foundation)

Advanced Artificial Intelligence is fundamentally strange. We can think of this “strangeness” in terms of the classic iceberg analogy. At the tip of the...

Daily news – February 3, 2022 a.m.

AFRICA Artificial intelligence creeps on to the African Battlefield. Nathaniel Allen, Marian “Ify” Okpali, Brookings: Even as the world’s leading militaries race to adopt artificial...