Responsible AI

The United States’ regulatory regime may not be clear or flexible enough to ensure the safety of AI-powered medical devices. Physicians and other health professionals believe that U.S. regulators have approved AI-powered medical products without proper oversight or disclosure.

Argentina’s recent presidential race was a battleground of AI-generated imagery. Candidates Javier Milei and Sergio Massa flooded social media with generated images of themselves and each other, The New York Times reported. On Sunday, Milei won the election’s final round.

OpenAI abruptly fired and rehired its CEO Sam Altman, capping five days of chaos within the company. On Friday, the OpenAI board of directors — whose membership since has changed — ousted CEO and co-founder Sam Altman from his leadership position and his seat on the board.

An international conference of political leaders and tech executives agreed to regulate AI. 28 countries including China and the United States as well as the European Union signed a declaration aimed at mitigating AI risks. 

U.S. President Biden announced directives that control AI based on his legal power to promote national defense and respond to national emergencies. The White House issued an executive order that requires AI companies and institutions...

Do the latest machine learning models constitute a supercharged tech stack for cybercrime? Innovations like text generation, voice cloning, and deepfake videos give scammers powerful new ways to gain their victims’ trust and infiltrate their systems. They threaten to bring on an epidemic of e-fraud.

In the absence of nationwide laws that regulate AI, major U.S. tech companies pledged to abide by voluntary guidelines — most of which they may already be following.

Facebook’s management obstructed the architect of its recommendation algorithms from mitigating their negative social impact. The social network focused on reining in algorithmic bias against particular groups of users at the expense of efforts to reduce disinformation.