Ctrl+AI+Reg - 30 January 2024
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AI Regulation Updates
Updates to: USA, Italy, China, Indonesia
Americas
🇺🇸 [29 January 2024] Biden-Harris Administration announces completed actions following Biden’s Executive Order on AI: The White House has released a fact sheet that summarises the activities completed by federal agencies following the Biden Executive Order on AI. The main regulatory highlights were: (1) use of the Defence Production Act to compel developers of most powerful AI systems to report vital information to the Department of Commerce; (2) proposed a draft rule to compel US cloud companies to alert the Department of Commerce where computing power is used by foreign clients to train powerful models; and (3) completed risk assessments covering AI’s use in every critical infrastructure sector.
Europe
🇮🇹 [30 January 2024] Italy watchdog says OpenAI’s ChatGPT breaches privacy rules: Italy’s data protection authority has told OpenAI that its app ChatGPT breaches data protection rules and will continue with its investigation started last year.
Asia
🇨🇳 [29 January 2024] China approves 14 large language models and enterprise applications: China has approved this year’s first batch of LLMs and enterprise applications for commercial use under its new regulatory process around generative AI.
🇮🇩 [29 January 2024] Indonesia pushes for comprehensive AI regulation: According to Communication and Informatics Ministry (Kominfo) director general of public information and communication Usman Kansong, the National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN) is currently drafting a presidential regulation on AI, which is expected to be passed into law.
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