Driving The Day

Today is June 10, 2024, and here are the key policymaker and stakeholder actions on AI you need to know: Countries around the world are racing to purchase AI chips—mostly from Nvidia—to build local data centers, even as the U.S. government is working to restrict exports of the most advanced chips to adversaries like China. However, some Chinese companies are circumventing those restrictions by renting access to advanced chips from U.S. cloud providers. In California, state lawmakers have introduced several bills intended to protect workers from being replaced by AI. Meanwhile, Leopold Acshenbrenner, a former OpenAI employee who was fired from the company in April, released a 165-page treatise outlining his thoughts on the future of AI, which includes a prediction that U.S. AI developers' lax security standards will result in the leak of artificial general intelligence breakthroughs to China “in the next 12-24 months.”

In this issue:

• Washington in Focus: How Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo became America’s point woman on AI. 

• Around the Nation: Colorado and Virginia legislators discussed their approaches to AI regulation at a forum in Washington, D.C.

• Across the Pond: Wired suggests the EU may be outmatched in its efforts to take on Big Tech.

• Global Highlights: The South China Morning Post asks if the U.S. and China can overcome mutual mistrust to agree rules on military use of artificial intelligence?

• Outside Views: Former OpenAI Engineer William Saunders speaks about his decision to criticize OpenAI’s safety practices.

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