🥟 Chao-Down #202 White House unveils executive order on Safe and Secure Responsible AI, University of Chicago researchers find way to "poison" AI image generators, AI boosts commercial real estate

The White House just dropped their landmark executive order on Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy AI. These are the highlights:

1. 𝐀𝐈 𝐒𝐚𝐟𝐞𝐭𝐲 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐒𝐞𝐜𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐲:- Establishes rigorous standards and testing for AI systems' safety.- Protects against AI-enabled threats, such as AI-engineered biological materials and AI-driven fraud.- Creates an advanced cybersecurity program utilizing AI to enhance software and network security.

2. 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐀𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐧𝐬’ 𝐏𝐫𝐢𝐯𝐚𝐜𝐲:- Calls for bipartisan data privacy legislation and emphasizes the importance of protecting personal data from AI risks.- Advances the development of privacy-preserving techniques and tools.- Strengthens privacy guidance for federal agencies and enhances measures to protect Americans' data.

3. 𝐄𝐪𝐮𝐢𝐭𝐲, 𝐂𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐥 𝐑𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐞𝐫𝐬’ 𝐑𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬:- Provides guidance against AI algorithms exacerbating discrimination and bias.- Promotes fairness in the criminal justice system by addressing AI's potential adverse effects.- Offers protection for workers, addressing AI's impact on the workplace, job displacement, and surveillance.

4. 𝐈𝐧𝐧𝐨𝐯𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧, 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐆𝐥𝐨𝐛𝐚𝐥 𝐋𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩:- Aims to maintain America's leadership in AI innovation by providing resources for AI research and supporting small businesses in AI commercialization.- Engages with international partners to ensure a safe, secure, and trustworthy deployment of AI on a global scale.

5. 𝐆𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭'𝐬 𝐑𝐨𝐥𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐀𝐈:- Directs the responsible and efficient deployment of AI within government agencies.- Aims for rapid hiring of AI professionals in government roles and provides AI training for employees.- Collaborates with global allies to establish a robust international framework for AI governance.

What impact will this legislation have for the future of AI in the United States?

-Alex, your resident Chaos Coordinator.

What happened in AI? 📰

The Beatles: ‘final’ song Now and Then to be released thanks to AI technology | The Beatles (The Guardian)

AI companies drive demand for office space in tech hubs, new study finds (Yahoo)

University of Chicago researchers seek to “poison” AI art generators with Nightshade (Ars Technica)

Can AI really fix bad video connectivity? (Quartz)

Chatbots might disrupt math and computer science classes. Some teachers see upsides (Quartz)

Growing AI presence is re-energizing parts of San Francisco (The Washington Post)

Always be Learnin’ 📕 📖

The TikTok Girl is Right: Modernity and the 9-to-5 (Substack)

Why Generative AI Needs Design (Forbes)

Entrepreneurs Have to Be Hungry. And how we can engineer motivation (Entrepreneur's Handbook)

Will generative AI transform business? (Financial Times)

Projects to Keep an Eye On 🛠

neuralmagic/deepsparse: Sparsity-aware deep learning inference runtime for CPUs (Github)

microsoft/promptflow: Build high-quality LLM apps - from prototyping, testing to production deployment and monitoring. (Github)

BerriAI/litellm: Call all LLM APIs using the OpenAI format. Use Bedrock, Azure, OpenAI, Cohere, Anthropic, Ollama, Sagemaker, HuggingFace, Replicate (100+ LLMs) (Github)

The Latest in AI Research 💡

Self-RAG: Learning to Retrieve, Generate, and Critique through Self-Reflection (arxiv)

BotChat: Evaluating LLMs' Capabilities of Having Multi-Turn Dialogues (arxiv)

SALMONN: Towards Generic Hearing Abilities for Large Language Models (arxiv)

The World Outside of AI 🌎

Tech Workers Are Dissatisfied With Their Jobs, New Data Shows (Business Insider)

Toxic workplaces are the main reason women leave academic jobs (Nature)

How the Science of Disease Infection Can Make Cities Stronger (Bloomberg)

Microsoft's Project Silica saves data on glass plates for 10,000 years (PCWorld)

The world's first carbon-negative home debuted in the Bahamas (qz.com)

PFAS 'Forever Chemicals' Found in Waterproof Zippers Made by YKK (Bloomberg)

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