The latest issue of the Center for AI Safety's newsletter reports that six AI companies have signed an accord with the White House. It also covers the Team Human campaign and a new introductory course on AI safety.
Apple has just presented a whole range of home devices built around Siri AI, yet the assistant remains unavailable in France, on the iPhone as well as in the living room. Some wording in the day's announcements nonetheless hints at a possible future rollout.
The New York Times, Agence France-Presse and The Economist have joined SPUR, a coalition pushing AI companies to stop using news content without permission. Founded in February, the group now counts more than 80 members in over 20 countries.
Australia's AFL has told its official betting partner Sportsbet to stop putting star players into AI-generated social media videos without their consent, and to delete clips showing them reciting film and TV lines. Sportsbet says it is working with the league on its use of AI.
In a Guardian opinion piece, Peter Lewis argues that the narrative of AI's inevitability shuts citizens out of decisions about the technology. He sees growing resistance in Australia and elsewhere to this idea of a future decided in advance.
In a statement to AFP, the writer denies that his novel was produced with AI and says it draws on his own wounds and those of other migrants. He does, however, admit to having plagiarised texts by established authors after arriving in Canada in 2010, and apologises.