Driving The Day

Today is September 4, 2024, and here are the key policymaker and stakeholder actions on AI you need to know: In a joint letter, several advocacy organizations urged Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas to suspend certain AI use cases at his agency. Meanwhile, experts are expressing concern over what they believe is the Food and Drug Administration’s insufficient regulation of AI-enabled medical devices. Across the pond, U.K. antitrust regulators declined to open a formal investigation into Microsoft’s partnership with Inflection AI, concluding the partnership does not harm competition.

In this issue:

• Washington in Focus: Foreign bots pose threat to agency rulemaking, senator warns.

• Around the Nation: Maryland officials discussed their cautious approach to AI tools.

• Across the Pond: Irish privacy officials dropped their legal proceedings against X after the company agreed not to train its AI models on data from its social media platform.

• Global Highlights: A new report showed a Chinese-linked online network is stoking U.S. political divisions.

• Outside Views: Yuval Noah Harari argued democracies should protect themselves by banning counterfeit humans, like AI-driven bots.

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