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Who’s Shaping the Future of AI?: Dispatches From the Policy Battlefield

How governments and businesses try to keep up with a technology shifting faster than regulation can handle.

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Welcome to Mozilla’s AI-focused collections, regularly updated reading lists on how artificial intelligence can inspire, inform, protect, and guide us.

Here, we explore how the humans in the government and private sector are using and battling AI to shape the policies that every part of our lives and futures.

What an Effort to Hack Chatbots Says About AI Safety

The White House backed an AI red-teaming exercise last year. The results are in.

We’re Focusing on the Wrong Kind of AI Apocalypse

“We need to worry about the many small catastrophes that AI can bring,” writes Ethan Mollick.

The Algorithmic Apocalypse

Fears about AI making decisions for you in the future are misplaced — because computers already control your life.

An A.I. Researcher Takes On Election Deepfakes

Oren Etzioni was once an optimist about artificial intelligence. Now, his nonprofit, TrueMedia.org, is offering tools for fighting A.I.-manipulated content.

The AI Act Is Done. Here’s What Will (and Won’t) Change

The hard work starts now.

How AI Companies Are Reckoning With Elections

Can AI be made election-friendly?

Let’s Not Make the Same Mistakes With AI That We Made With Social Media

Social media’s unregulated evolution over the past decade holds a lot of lessons that apply directly to AI companies and technologies.

Why Can’t Anyone Agree on How Dangerous AI Will Be?

Researchers at the Forecasting Research Institute tried to get AI optimists and pessimists on the same page. It didn’t quite work.

Regulators Need AI Expertise. They Can’t Afford It

The European AI Office and the UK government are trying to hire experts to study and regulate the AI boom—but are offering salaries far short of industry compensation.

AI News That’s Fit to Print: The New York Times’ Editorial AI Director on the Current State of AI-Powered Journalism

“I’m only speaking for myself today, but this certainly reflects how I’m thinking about the role AI could play in the Times newsroom and beyond.”

AUDIO: Here Comes the Flood of AI-Generated Clickbait

This week, we look at how domain squatters are using generative AI tools to crank out clickbait, and ask what Google is doing about it.

How AI Copyright Lawsuits Could Make the Whole Industry Go Extinct

AI firms are facing major copyright challenges over their claims of fair use, and the industry’s future hangs in the balance.

The Text File That Runs the Internet

For three decades, a tiny text file has kept the internet from chaos. This text file has no particular legal or technical authority, and it’s not even particularly complicated.

The EU’s AI Act and How Companies Can Achieve Compliance

Companies need to analyze where they might fail to be compliant and then operationalize or implement the requisite steps to close the gaps in a way that reflects internal alignment. For most companies, that won’t be easy. The article lays out what boards, C-suites, and managers need to do to make this process work and ensure their companies will be compliant when regulation comes into force.

Bans on Deepfakes Take Us Only So Far—Here’s What We Really Need

There is a big elephant in the room: outright bans might not even be technically feasible.

Educators Teaching AI Literacy to Students Should Include Ethics in Their Lesson Plans, Scholars Say

As educators incorporate AI literacy into their curriculums, some are teaching their students how to use the tech ethically and efficiently.

How AI Is Already Transforming the News Business

An expert explains the promise and peril of artificial intelligence.

Human-curated news about our shifting AI landscape, brought to you by Mozilla.

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