Driving The Day

Today is February 28, 2024, and here are the key policymaker and stakeholder actions on AI you need to know: In Washington, President Biden issued an executive order restricting the sale of Americans’ private data to foreign adversaries, a move motivated partly by the threat advanced AI may pose if Americans’ data were to fall into the wrong hands. Meanwhile, the bipartisan group of senators working with Majority Leader Chuck Schumer on AI legislation will release a report at the end of March intended to guide the Senate’s committee work on AI legislation. In China, a court ordered an unnamed AI company to pay damages to a Japanese special effects studio for training an image generation AI model on one of the studio’s fictional characters. Lastly, Apple shareholders voted down a proposal from the AFL-CIO's pension trust that would have required the company to reveal more about its use of AI. The AFL-CIO has proposed similar AI disclosure shareholder measures for other public companies as well.

In this issue:

• Washington in Focus: Sen. Hawley calls on Google’s CEO to testify in congress over the company’s handling of inaccurate responses from its Gemini model.

• Around the Nation: School chiefs struggle to craft AI policies.

• Across the Pond: French MPs voice sovereignty, competition concerns after Microsoft-Mistral AI deal.

• Global Highlights: An activist in Kenya argues the country’s AI regulatory model must consider global trends, human rights. 

• Outside Views: Google CEO calls AI tool’s controversial responses ‘completely unacceptable.’

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