The Biden Administration's Plan to Regulate AI Without Waiting for Congress

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FTC sent a letter to tech companies asking probing questions backed by the implicit threats of undefined future regulatory action. The FCC was a real pioneer of the regulation by intimidation and nasty Graham strategy. It's hard to argue that this process with agencies each following their own agenda in an uncoordinated fashion is ultimately going to be good either for consumer protection or for innovation.

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is looking into whether OpenAI's ChatGPT has caused consumer harms in terms of data collection and safety practices as well as disparaging information. A look at what the implications are for the larger state of AI regulation. Before that on the Brief the Screen Actor's Guild has joined the Writers Guild of America in their strike, and AI is at the very center of the battle; Hugging Face is raising at a $4B valuation, more controversy at Stability AI, and Twitter is suing companies for scraping its data. Today's Sponsor: Supermanage - AI for 1-on-1's - https://supermanage.ai/breakdown ABOUT THE AI BREAKDOWN The AI Breakdown helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to The AI Breakdown newsletter: https://theaibreakdown.beehiiv.com/subscribe Subscribe to The AI Breakdown on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheAIBreakdown Join the community: bit.ly/aibreakdown Learn more: http://breakdown.network/