OpenAI engineer: "It’s kind of deeply unfair that, you know, a group of people can just build AI and take everyone’s jobs away... join us and have one of the few remaining jobs. I don't know; it's rough." theatlantic.com/technology/arc…

Re: The Johansson + OpenAI voice debacle, there are some interesting bills in CA about non-consensual voice clones of performers and and dead people from Ash Kalra 🌱 and Assemblymember Rebecca Bauer-Kahan . h/t to POLITICO California

👀 New proposed rulemaking from FCC chair Jessica Rosenworcel re: disclosing the use of AI in political ads ⬇️

Excited about this ⤵️

Delighted to sit down with Matt Scherer to chat about the state of state AI bias legislation for an episode of Center for Democracy & Technology's podcast 🎙️ open.spotify.com/episode/1zH1Bw…

Proud of my colleagues for bringing the heat to General Mills 🔥🔥🔥

cool job alert ⤵️

Tip of the cap to Kara Williams and all the other folks at EPIC who worked on this #AI legislative scorecard. A useful resource for those of us working in #AI policy ⤵️

For the #AI state policy watchers: Approx 70 bills being heard tomorrow by the California senate judiciary committee including #AB2930, a major AI bias bill from Assemblymember Rebecca Bauer-Kahan. #AB2930 has some elements in common with the already-passed Colorado AI Act sjud.senate.ca.gov/content/bill-h…

Thank you NYDFS for adopting state regulatory guidance to protect consumers from unfair or unlawful discrimination by insurers using artificial intelligence!! We need clear rules of the road to ensure consumers are treated fairly during underwriting & pricing.

On point comments from Ryan Calo on how profiling + AI allows companies to extract $ from consumers at today's Senate commerce hearing. "The future we're headed to, and even the present, is a situation where you're charged exactly as much as you're willing to pay in the moment."

Plus an example from Ryan Calo's testimony: "Say I'm trying to make dinner for my kids and I'm just desperately trying to find a movie for them to stream...if Amazon can figure that out, or Apple can figure that out, they can charge me more in the moment when I'm flustered" 1/

Staff at the California Privacy Protection Agency are recommending that the agency take a 'support if amended' position on AI bias bill (AB 2930). cppa.ca.gov/meetings/mater…

Thrilled to see the FTC tackling this. For those looking for a primer/refresher on pricing shenanigans, I highly recommend this from Chris Beam ⤵️ theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

Relatedly, Consumer Reports just today released the results of a nationally-representative survey of 2,022 US adults. - 66% of Americans oppose personalized pricing - Hardly any (7%) support personalized pricing advocacy.consumerreports.org/press_release/…

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ICYMI: @CFPB issued a circular making clear that financial institutions may be breaking a law w/whistleblower protections when they make employees sign broad NDAs Whistleblower protections are esp. important in tech/AI, where harms are often obscured ⤵️ consumerfinance.gov/compliance/cir…

there's a lot to love in this White House release, but specifically for #AI heads, the @CFPB is going to issue rules on banks' ineffective chatbots, and identify when their use is illegal. @CFPB also to initiate a rulemaking req companies to let you talk to a human with 1 click

an excellent wrap from Arvind Narayanan + colleagues of the shortcomings of predictive AI in the wild: the UK's liver allocation algorithm accidentally made it just about impossible for young people to get liver transplants. aisnakeoil.com/p/does-the-uks…

AI-related update to X's privacy policy: If you do not opt-out, third parties may use your data "for their own independent purposes ...including, for example, to train their artificial intelligence models" new privacy policy vs. oct 8 version ⤵️