AI Update: Regulation Discussion Ramps Up, Google’s Watermark Experiment

// A congressional committee spearheaded by Chuck Schumer will soon begin a series of “A.I. Insight Forums” with tech industry leaders, including Elon Musk of Tesla, Sundar Pichai of Google, Sam Altman of OpenAI and Satya Nadella of Microsoft, according to the New York Times. The meetings will inform Schumer and company as they put together a framework for regulating AI in the United States.

Mustafa Suleyman, chief executive of Inflection and co-founder of Google DeepMind, has suggested that restrictions on the sale of the Nvidia chips frequently used for training advanced AI systems may serve as a lever for regulation if prospective buyers must agree to a set of safety and ethics standards for how they use the chips, according to the Financial Times.

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Another possible approach to regulation, offered this week by data science scholar Alex C. Engler of Georgetown via the Brookings Institution, is “Critical Algorithmic Systems Classification (CASC).” The CASC approach would “help preserve crucial consumer and civil rights protections in the algorithmic age, with sensible restrictions and without major changes to the structure of the federal government,” according to Engler.

AI-powered e-discovery company Reveal’s acquisition of two other e-discovery vendors, Logikcull and IPRO, provides a case study for the legal industry’s slow embrace of AI, the Wall Street Journal reports. Attorneys are still slow to trust AI and are hesitant about how the technology will impact their business models, said the former Logikcull CEO Andy Wilson.

Google has begun experimenting with a new tool to identify artificially generated images called SynthID. The technology “works by embedding changes to individual pixels in images so watermarks are invisible to the human eye, but detectable by computers,” the BBC reports.

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Ethan Beberness is a Brooklyn-based writer covering legal tech, small law firms, and in-house counsel for Above the Law. His coverage of legal happenings and the legal services industry has appeared in Law360, Bushwick Daily, and elsewhere.

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