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  • So what is Sam Altman's 'universal basic compute' anyway?

    So what is Sam Altman's 'universal basic compute' anyway?
    May 21 2024
    OpenAI CEO Sam Altman floated a radical idea recently: What if everyone got to own a piece of artificial intelligence? He called it “universal basic compute.” And while it may never become actual social policy, it reveals how the nation’s most influential tech brains are thinking about the AI future. POLITICO Digital Future Daily author Derek Robertson joins host Steven Overly to discuss.
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    17 min
  • ‘It does feel like a disappointment’: An AI expert blasts the Senate’s new policy roadmap

    ‘It does feel like a disappointment’: An AI expert blasts the Senate’s new policy roadmap
    May 20 2024
    The Senate spent months consulting dozens of experts when crafting its new AI “policy roadmap.” One of them, computer science professor and former White House adviser Suresh Venkatasubramanian, is now blasting the final plan for being too favorable to the tech industry and failing to address risks like bias and deception. Venkatasubramanian joins POLITICO Tech host Steven Overly to explain where he thinks the roadmap comes up short.
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    19 min
  • Sen. Todd Young delves into the new AI roadmap

    Sen. Todd Young delves into the new AI roadmap
    May 17 2024
    The roll out this week of the Senate’s artificial intelligence policy roadmap was about as close to bipartisanship as Washington gets these days. But can it last? Sen. Todd Young (R-Ind.), one of the roadmap’s four co-authors, joins host Steven Overly to discuss what’s next as lawmakers look to pass actual legislation, and political divisions begin to emerge.
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    16 min
  • Two unlikely states tried to rein in AI. Then came the tech lobbyists

    Two unlikely states tried to rein in AI. Then came the tech lobbyists
    May 16 2024
    Colorado and Connecticut attempted to become the first states to regulate artificial intelligence but faced significant pushback from the tech industry. In Connecticut, the governor then threatened to veto the legislation. And in Colorado, the governor is under pressure to do the same. Mallory Culhane, author of POLITICO's Morning Tech newsletter, joins host Steven Overly to discuss the fate of Colorado's AI legislation and whether other states will follow similar approaches to AI regulation.
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    15 min
  • Chuck Schumer just fired the Senate’s AI starting gun

    Chuck Schumer just fired the Senate’s AI starting gun
    May 15 2024
    Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer’s AI policy roadmap is out this morning. The bipartisan report, co-authored with Sens. Martin Heinrich, Todd Young and Mike Rounds, calls for big bucks for AI research, and legislation in areas like workforce training. It’s expected to kick off a flurry of legislative action in the Senate, even as the election rapidly approaches. Reggie Babin, an attorney and lobbyist at Akin, worked as Schumer’s chief counsel until 2022. He joins POLITICO Tech host Steven Overly to break down the impact of the new AI roadmap.
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    24 min
  • What Biden’s ‘next chapter’ of AI looks like

    What Biden’s ‘next chapter’ of AI looks like
    May 14 2024
    When President Joe Biden talks about artificial intelligence, he’ll often refer to the technology’s “promise and peril.” Yet much of his AI agenda to date has focused on the latter. Now, the White House is shifting focus to the “aspirational” uses of AI -- a change in tone that could be complicated by the perils that remain. On POLITICO Tech, Office of Science and Technology Policy Director Arati Prabhakar tells Steven Overly about Biden’s plan to “start shaping the next chapter” of AI focused on its upsides.
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    16 min
  • Big dreams, small budget. NSF's director on funding AI research

    Big dreams, small budget. NSF's director on funding AI research
    May 13 2024
    President Biden’s signature CHIPS and Science Act promised the National Science Foundation a budget boost of $81 billion over five years. But so far, Congress hasn’t come through with the money. That has Sethuraman Panchanathan, the director of the NSF, persuading lawmakers to loosen the national purse strings, while in the meantime, cobbling together money from the NSF’s shrinking budget and the private sector to fund AI research projects. Steven Overly talked with "Panch" for today's episode of Politico Tech.
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    14 min
  • How the US beats China on AI

    How the US beats China on AI
    May 10 2024
    The relationship between Washington and the tech industry has gone through no shortage of ups and downs over the years, but things were all smiles earlier this week at an AI expo hosted by the Special Competitive Studies Project. The CEO of that group, Ylli Bajraktari, talked to host Steven Overly about the Washington-Silicon Valley divide and why collaboration between industry and government is the only way he sees the U.S. beating China on AI.
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    21 min