AI companies will need to start reporting their safety tests to the US government

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1. AI companies will need to start reporting their safety tests to the US government

The Biden administration is implementing a new requirement for AI system developers to disclose their safety test results to the US government. The White House AI Council is set to review progress made on the executive order signed by President Biden three months ago to manage AI technology.

The order mandates AI companies to share vital information with the Commerce Department, including safety tests. The government's National Institute of Standards and Technology will develop a uniform framework for assessing safety. AI has become a leading economic and national security consideration for the US government, and the Commerce Department has developed a draft rule on US cloud companies.

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2. OpenAI and CommonSense Media team up to curate family-friendly GPTs

OpenAI and CommonSense Media have partnered to curate family-friendly GPTs in their GPT Store. The partnership aims to minimize the risks of AI use by teenagers by creating guidelines and educational materials for young people, their parents, and educators.

The two organizations will curate a collection of family-friendly GPTs based on CommonSense's ratings, making it easier to identify suitable ones for younger users. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman emphasized the importance of teaching people to use AI tools, stating that future high school seniors could achieve more with AI.

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3. AI poisoning tool Nightshade received 250,000 downloads in 5 days

AI poisoning tool Nightshade, created by computer science researchers at the University of Chicago, has received 250,000 downloads in the first five days of its release. The tool aims to disrupt AI models scraping and training on artworks without consent by altering images on a pixel level.

The tool has received 250,000 downloads in the first five days, showing a robust appetite among some artists to protect their work from being used to train AI without consent. The team's earlier tool, Glaze, has received 2.2 million downloads since its release in April 2023. The Glaze Project researchers plan to release a tool combining both tools, with an open-source version in the works.

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4. Robot trained to read braille at twice the speed of humans

Researchers at the University of Cambridge have developed a robotic sensor that uses artificial intelligence to read braille at speeds double that of most human readers. The sensor uses machine learning algorithms to quickly slide over lines of braille text, reading at 315 words per minute at close to 90% accuracy. 

The high sensitivity required for reading braille makes it an ideal test for developing robot hands or prosthetics with comparable sensitivity to human fingertips. The researchers used an off-the-shelf sensor with a camera in its fingertip to read by using a combination of information from the camera and sensors.

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5. OpenAI's ChatGPT breaches privacy rules, says Italian watchdog

Italy's data protection authority, Garante, has accused OpenAI of breaching data protection rules for its artificial intelligence chatbot application, ChatGPT. The authority, known as Garante, is one of the most proactive in assessing AI platform compliance with the EU's data privacy regime. Last year, it briefly banned ChatGPT over alleged breaches of EU privacy rules. OpenAI has 30 days to present defense arguments and believes its practices are aligned with EU privacy laws.

The Garante has stated that OpenAI actively works to reduce personal data in training its systems like ChatGPT and plans to continue working constructively with the regulator. The EU's General Data Protection Regulation introduced in 2018 allows companies found to have broken rules to face fines of up to 4% of their global turnover.

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