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In the fall of 2023, the US Bipartisan Senate AI Working Group held insight forms with global leaders. Participants included the leaders of major AI labs, tech companies, major organizations adopting and implementing AI throughout the wider economy, union leaders, academics, advocacy groups, and civil society organizations. This document, released on March 15, 2024, is the culmination of those discussions. It provides a roadmap that US policy is likely to follow as the US Senate begins to create legislation.

Original text:
https://www.politico.com/f/?id=0000018f-79a9-d62d-ab9f-f9af975d0000

Author(s):
 Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, Senator Mike Rounds, Senator Martin Heinrich, and Senator Todd Young

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In this paper from CSET, Ben Buchanan outlines a framework for understanding the inputs that power machine learning. Called "the AI Triad", it focuses on three inputs: algorithms, data, and compute.

Original text:
 https://cset.georgetown.edu/wp-content/uploads/CSET-AI-Triad-Report.pdf

Author(s):
Ben Buchanan

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This paper explores the under-discussed strategies of adaptation and resilience to mitigate the risks of advanced AI systems. The authors present arguments supporting the need for societal AI adaptation, create a framework for adaptation, offer examples of adapting to AI risks, outline the concept of resilience, and provide concrete recommendations for policymakers.

Original text:
 https://drive.google.com/file/d/1k3uqK0dR9hVyG20-eBkR75_eYP2efolS/view?usp=sharing

Author(s): 
Jamie Bernardi, Gabriel Mukobi, Hilary Greaves, Lennart Heim, and Markus Anderljung

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This document from the OECD is split into two sections: principles for responsible stewardship of trustworthy AI & national policies and international co-operation for trustworthy AI. 43 governments around the world have agreed to adhere to the document. While originally written in 2019, updates were made in 2024 which are reflected in this version.

Original text:
 https://legalinstruments.oecd.org/en/instruments/OECD-LEGAL-0449

Author(s): 
The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development

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This summary of UNESCO's Recommendation on the Ethics of AI outlines four core values, ten core principles, and eleven actionable policies for responsible AI governance. The full text was agreed to by all 193 member states of the United Nations.

Original text:
 https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000385082

Author(s): 
The United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organziation

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This statement was released by the UK Government as part of their Global AI Safety Summit from November 2023. It notes that frontier models pose unique risks and calls for international cooperation, finding that "many risks arising from AI are inherently international in nature, and so are best addressed through international cooperation." It was signed by multiple governments, including the US, EU, India, and China.

Original text:
 https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/ai-safety-summit-2023-the-bletchley-declaration/the-bletchley-declaration-by-countries-attending-the-ai-safety-summit-1-2-november-2023

Author(s): 
UK Government

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This report by the UK's Department for Science, Technology, and Innovation outlines a regulatory framework for UK AI policy. Per the report, "AI is helping to make our jobs safer and more satisfying, conserve our wildlife and fight climate change, and make our public services more efficient. Not only do we need to plan for the capabilities and uses of the AI systems we have today, but we must also prepare for a near future where the most powerful systems are broadly accessible and significantly more capable"

Original text: https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/ai-regulation-a-pro-innovation-approach-policy-proposals/outcome/a-pro-innovation-approach-to-ai-regulation-government-response#executive-summary

Author(s): UK Department of Science, Technology, and Innovation

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This report from the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace summarizes Chinese AI policy as of mid-2023. It also provides analysis of the factors motivating Chinese AI Governance. We're providing a more structured analysis to Chinese AI policy relative to other governments because we expect learners will be less familiar with the Chinese policy process.

Original text:
https://carnegieendowment.org/2023/07/10/china-s-ai-regulations-and-how-they-get-made-pub-90117

Author(s): 
Matt Sheehan

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This primer by the Future of Life Institute highlights core elements of the EU AI Act. It includes a high level summary alongside explanations of different restrictions on prohibited AI systems, high-risk AI systems, and general purpose AI.

Original text:
 https://artificialintelligenceact.eu/high-level-summary/

Author(s): 
The Future of Life Institute

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This fact sheet from The White House summarizes President Biden's AI Executive Order from October 2023. The President's AI EO represents the most aggressive approach to date from the US executive branch on AI policy.

Original text:
 https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2023/10/30/fact-sheet-president-biden-issues-executive-order-on-safe-secure-and-trustworthy-artificial-intelligence/

Author(s): 
The White House

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