Driving The Day

Today is April 1, 2024, and here are the key policymaker and stakeholder actions on AI you need to know: To help U.S. companies comply with export restrictions, U.S. officials are working on a list of Chinese companies making advanced chips. Meanwhile, China criticized the Biden Administration’s latest revisions to export controls on advanced technologies, while leading American AI companies are pushing chip manufacturers to relocate operations to Mexico. OpenAI announced a new voice generation tool, though the company won’t yet widely release the tool due to concerns over the potential for its abuse. The Center for AI Policy pointed out that industry, government, and nonprofit players independently expressed support recently for “experimentally testing AI systems to ensure safety.” Lastly, The Wall Street Journal dug into the liability issues companies may face over “the things their AIs say and do.”

In this issue:

• Washington in Focus: Congress bans staff use of Microsoft's AI Copilot.

• Around the Nation: California bill would create multi-partner AI research hub.

• Across the Pond: EU and U.S. continue to cooperate on AI, including genAI.

• Global Highlights: Japan, EU to discuss cooperation on tech materials to cut reliance on China, Nikkei says.

• Outside Views: How one tech skeptic decided A.I. might benefit the middle class.

Read these stories and more below:

Subscribe to Policy and Stakeholder Activity Tracking to read the rest.

Become a paying subscriber of Policy and Stakeholder Activity Tracking to get access to this post and other subscriber-only content.