November AI Strategies Newsletter
AI Infrastructures and Their Consequences in Global Contexts
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AI cooperation on the ground: AI research and development on a global scale - Brookings (November 4th, 2022)
“The Forum for Cooperation on Artificial Intelligence (FCAI) has investigated opportunities and obstacles for international cooperation to foster development of responsible artificial intelligence (AI). It has brought together officials from seven governments (Australia, Canada, the European Union, Japan, Singapore, the United Kingdom, and United States with experts from industry, academia, and civil society to explore similarities and differences in national policies on AI, avenues of international cooperation, ecosystems of AI research and development (R&D), and AI standards development among other issues. Following a series of roundtables in 2020 and 2021, we issued a progress report in October 2021 that articulated why international cooperation is especially needed on AI, identified significant challenges to such cooperation, and proposed four key areas where international cooperation could deepen: Regulatory alignment, standards development, trade agreements, and joint R&D. The report made 15 recommendations on ways to make progress in these areas.”
Artificial Intelligence Act: A Policy Prototyping Experiment Operationalizing the Requirements for AI Systems – Part 1 - India AI (November 10th, 2022)
“Artificial Intelligence Act: A Policy Prototyping Experiment is published by Open Loop Program, a program that has been created to make the AI Act more clear, operational and technically feasible. The program is supported by Meta and it creates the base for debate in Europe around AI regulation, explainable AI, trusted AI and ethical AI. The program focuses on policy prototyping and is structured into three connected phases: a) operationalizing the requirements for AI systems, b) regulatory sandbox and c) taxonomy of AI actors. Since policy prototyping is a methodology to assess the efficacy of a policy by testing it in a controlled environment first, the program, initiated discussions, workshops and surveys to provide feedback and views on the AI Act.”
UK government seeks business views on artificial intelligence - Research Professional News (November 21st, 2022)
“Ipsos carrying out survey to inform government policy, as Sunak underlines importance of AI innovation. The UK government is running a survey to understand the country’s artificial intelligence sector and how it is growing, with a goal of informing government policy on AI. The survey, run by market research company Ipsos UK, is looking to speak to key people in the UK artificial intelligence sector, including chief executives, chief technology officers, company directors and senior members in AI and data science teams.”
EU hopes to build aligned guidelines on artificial intelligence with US - Science Business (November 22nd, 2022)
“Brussels and Washington can create a common space for trustworthy AI so that companies can comply with both EU and US artificial intelligence guidelines by applying a single set of rules, the EU’s competition commissioner has said.
Margrethe Vestager’s remarks, made in advance of the third EU-US Trade and Technology Council (TTC) meeting, which will take place on December 5, go further than ever before in aiming to align rules over the technology. Speaking in Brussels on 21 November, she said that progress made by the EU and US should “pave the way for a transatlantic sort of space for trustworthy AI.”