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Artificial Intelligence is a key technology that can help us solve major societal challenges such as climate change, energy supply, healthcare, education or logistics. AI can solve specific problems more effectively by supporting us in decision-making, automating solutions and thus scaling them, or discovering completely new solutions. But the use of AI also poses new risks, for example when it comes to surveillance or questions of social justice.

What is our society doing with AI – and what is AI doing to our society? We shed light on this question in our AI and Society Content Hub.

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"Unlimited genius" for all: Altman's naive dream of AI equality

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Study warns: creeping AI development could lead to our 'gradual disempowerment'

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OpenAI and Microsoft may be in trouble

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The Biden Administration has announced the US AI Safety Institute Consortium (AISIC), a group of more than 200 companies, including leading AI companies such as OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, and Amazon. The consortium will focus on the safe development and use of generative AI, addressing the priority actions of President Biden's October AI Executive Order. This includes developing guidelines for red-teaming, risk management, security, and watermarking synthetic content. AISIC will be housed under the umbrella of the U.S. AI Safety Institute (USAISI) and will be the largest gathering of testing and evaluation teams. The goal is to "focus on establishing the foundations for a new measurement science in AI safety," according to the Department of Commerce. The full list of participants can be found here.

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Russia and China have met in Beijing to discuss the military use of artificial intelligence. According to a statement from the Russian Foreign Ministry, there was "a detailed exchange of assessments" on the use of AI technology for military purposes. Both countries agreed to intensify cooperation within the framework of the Group of Governmental Experts (GGE) of the States Parties to the Convention on Inhumane Weapons on Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems (LAWS). The Russian statement emphasized the closeness of Russian and Chinese approaches to this issue and the need for further close cooperation. The Chinese statement made no mention of discussions on the military use of AI, but did mention consultations on "outer space security, biosecurity and artificial intelligence."

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DiscoLM German 7b is an open-source German language model based on Mistral. The model is optimized for German texts and understands, generates, and interacts effectively with German-language content, but also retains its English language capabilities and is supposed to be particularly good at translation tasks. In MT Bench, DiscoLM German 7b lags behind GPT-3.5 in writing, but according to the developer, the real quality of the model lies in its German expression, which is not covered by benchmarks, but felt by native speakers. DiscoLM is even ahead of GPT-3.5 in reasoning. The model is also trained for RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation) applications.

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Euractiv journalist Luca Bertuzzi has leaked the final text of the EU AI Act. The final yes/no vote is expected to take place in the Committee of Permanent Representatives (COREPER) in early February. It seems there is good news for open-source AI: Third parties will be exempt from certain compliance requirements if they provide AI tools, services, processes or components under a free and open license. Exemptions are foundational models. Developers are also encouraged to use common documentation practices such as model maps and datasheets. This should facilitate the exchange of information in the AI value chain and promote the development of trustworthy AI systems in the European Union.

Software and data, including models, released under a free and open-source licence that allows them to be openly shared and where users can freely access, use, modify and redistribute them or modified versions thereof, can contribute to research and innovation in the market and can provide significant growth opportunities for the Union economy.

EU AI Act Draft

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