Driving The Day

Today is October 5, 2023, and here are the key policymaker and stakeholder actions on AI you need to know: At a Federal Trade Commission hearing, representatives for actors, authors, and other creative professionals argued generative AI is threatening the intellectual property of their members. U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is encouraging countries around the world to join the self-regulation agreements made between leading AI companies and the Biden Administration. Meanwhile, as global policymakers consider new rules around testing and evaluating AI tools, leading AI companies Anthropic and Scale have published deep dives on the challenges of testing AI models.

In this issue:

• Washington in Focus: Meta and X questioned by lawmakers over lack of rules against AI-generated political deepfakes.

• Around the Nation: What is artificial intelligence? State legislators are still looking for a definition.

• Across the Pond: Could an employer in the UK be liable for wrongdoing caused by AI?

• Global Highlights: China is ready for the new age of AI-fueled disinformation.

• Outside Views: An AI ethics researcher who sat on Sen. Schumer’s AI panel last month argues society is too focused on AI’s leading corporate voices.

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