AI Prognostication
AI
Two bipartisan bills have been introduced in Congress:
House Bill 7532, co-sponsored by James Comer (R-Ky.) and Jamie Raskin (D-Md.), would "codif[y] federal governance of agency AI systems ..." [Congress.gov | FedScoop article]
Senate Bill 3875, co-sponsored by Sens. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) and Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), would require disclosure of AI-generated content in all political advertising, if passed [Congress.gov | FedScoop article]
Lexis+ AI prognosticated two future cases citing Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. Harvard College
A casual audit of AI-generated tax advice from H&R Block and TurboTax did not yield good returns [Washington Post ($)]
From CNN: "AI ‘resurrects’ long dead dictator in murky new era of deepfake electioneering"
A Microsoft engineer who has been testing an image generator released by the company, based on OpenAI's Dall-e, has publicized concerns the product generating "harmful, disturbing images"
Litigation finance firms are using AI tools to target cases for investment [Bloomberg Law ($)]
Blockchain/Digital Currency
Bitcoin is at a record high right now [NY Times ($) | The Hill]
The Energy Information Administration has dropped its effort to collect data on energy usage from crypto-mining entities and has promised to destroy any data already collected
Data Privacy
The FTC goes into detail on its 'crackdowns' against certain data brokers
Long Reads
Hofmann, V., Kalluri, P.R., Jurafsky, D., King, S., "Dialect prejudice predicts AI decisions about people's character, employability, and criminality," Mar 1, 2024, https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.00742
Kapoor S., Henderson P., Narayanan A., "Promises and pitfalls of artificial intelligence for legal applications," Jan 10, 2024, Forthcoming in the Journal of Cross-disciplinary Research in Computational Law, https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.01656