We at Federation of American Scientists🔬 are one of five organizations co-leading this letter because funding NIST's budget request should be an easy win - allowing it to do the important AI safety work that legislators on both sides of the aisle have called on NIST to take on.

new: Over 100 politicians on the ballot in India asked an AI consultant to make unethical deepfakes of their opponents. He declined, but said others will oblige.

How AI threatens to upend global elections + the lack of laws to stop it. w/Cat Zakrzewski washingtonpost.com/technology/202…

New: House passes potential TikTok ban that could speed through Senate, w/ Taylor Telford
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“That’s where a lot of the tech legislation goes to die is that committee,” said one House aide. “It’s a graveyard over there.”

Important story from Cristiano Lima-Strong

OpenAI plans to lean hard into anti-China messaging in the coming months. The strategy is to position the company as a proud American firm supporting US interests - which also BRW plays well with whomever wins the White House in November. washingtonpost.com/technology/202…

OpenAI is dealing with a new reality. It's facing an open season on lawsuits, investigations and legislation that has the company playing defense. More importantly, they threaten its goal of building the world’s most powerful AI washingtonpost.com/technology/202… Cat Zakrzewski #openai

To start the final day of #Verify2024 , Jeff Greene of Aspen Digital, Nicole Tisdale of Advocacy Blueprints, and Iranga Kahangama of Homeland Security join Cat Zakrzewski to discuss which cybersecurity issues the federal government should prioritize in 2025.

It's been one year since our fellow journalist, Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, was detained in Russia and falsely accused of espionage. The Journal and the U.S. government vehemently deny the allegation and continue to call for his immediate release.

The…

Fascinating Nitasha Tiku and Pranshu Verma article on the new era of identity fraud. Scammers are stealing ordinary people’s faces to hawk offensive products washingtonpost.com/technology/202…

new: AI scammers stole these women's faces. Now their clones sell erectile dysfunction pills and praise Vladimir Putin.

Celebrities aren't the only ones getting AI-cloned without their consent, now ordinary women are too, Nitasha Tiku and I found.

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When I called Carrie, a 46-year-old mom fr North Carolina, she knew there was a deepfake ad with her face selling erectile dysfunction treatment but she’d given up on finding it. She watched it over the phone, it was worse than she thought washingtonpost.com/technology/202…

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Join Atlantic Council Europe Center and DFRLab - @dfrlab.bsky.social for a conversation with Věra Jourová on transatlantic and global information integrity and media freedom, moderated by Cat Zakrzewski, with opening remarks by Amy Klobuchar.

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.Anna Adeola Makanju says, “The idea is not that OpenAI itself is now entering into chip production but that we really need just more capital in order to ensure that … the entire ecosystem is getting the necessary hardware to do this.” #PostLive

.Anna Adeola Makanju on mood at OpenAI: “We’re very relieved obviously that this is all behind us and that we can just get back to doing what we love to do.... Everyone is just happy that they can focus on that and not continuously just deal with the churn that that situation created.”

.Anna Adeola Makanju says, “It’s critical that the regulation of this technology is driven by data and driven by science and I think that that’s why it’s actually quite good that Congress has taken time to truly understand the technology.” #PostLive

.OpenAI #annamakanju Washington Post Live Cat Zakrzewski asks about their #Chip efforts “The trillions we need more capital in order to be sure the entire echo system [has access]… Demand is even greater than could be fulfilled…Many communities will be left out.” The Washington Post