Driving The Day

Today is April 18, 2024, and here are the key policymaker and stakeholder actions on AI you need to know: In Washington, Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-WA), Sen. Todd Young (R-IN), Sen. John Hickenlooper (D-CO), and Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) introduced a proposal aimed at spurring AI innovation, including through voluntary standards and “strong partnerships between government, business, civil society and academia.” In Connecticut, the Consumer Technology Association is concerned a wide-ranging AI bill would “mandate strict new compliance obligations that would reach far beyond Connecticut.” Lastly, Politico reports that despite an agreement by tech companies to submit their new AI models for pre-release testing by the U.K.’s AI Safety Institute, several leading AI developers have launched their models without allowing such testing.

In this issue:

• Washington in Focus: Commerce requests information about AI, open data assets, data dissemination.

• Around the Nation: Maine fails to pass ambitious consumer data privacy act.

• Across the Pond: UK is falling behind US in the race for AI, BOE’s Haskel say.

• Global Highlights: India considers Nvidia GPU purchase to boost local AI ecosystem.

• Outside Views: China’s Ant, Baidu, Tencent collaborate with US firms OpenAI, Nvidia on publishing first global generative AI standards.

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