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U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) faces an overwhelmingly empty Republican section of the House chamber as she is applauded by her Democratic colleagues after announcing that she will remain in Congress but will not run for re-election as Speaker after Republicans were projected to win control of the House of Representatives, on the floor of the House Chamber of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, U.S., November 17, 2022. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein

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Tuesday, November 22, 2022

U.S. President Joe Biden receives an economic briefing in the Roosevelt Room at the White House in Washington, U.S., March 5, 2021. REUTERS/Tom Brenner

The AI Bill of Rights makes uneven progress on algorithmic protections

Monday, November 21, 2022

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Encouraging interoperability to help learners in the digital credential marketplace

Monday, October 17, 2022

A wafer (a thin slice of semiconductor) on display during SEMICON 2020, in Taipei, Taiwan on September 23, 2020.SEMICON Taiwan is the only professional semiconductor exhibition in Taiwan and the second-largest in the world, according to event organizer Semi Taiwan. (Photo by Walid Berrazeg/Sipa USA)No Use UK. No Use Germany.

A typology of the machine learning value chain — And why it matters to policymaking

Tuesday, September 20, 2022

VIDEO AVAILABLE: CONTACT INFO@COVERMG.COMOne of the world’s most successful NFT artists, the Italian contemporary artist and blockchain pioneer Andrea Bonaceto, is taking over the W1 Curates art display façade to Flannels’ flagship store on London’s Oxford Street from 16 May 2022 with a new interactive installation of his work titled AB Infinite 1. The artwork represents an interactive snapshot of Andrea Bonaceto’s life in the eternal cycle that goes “ab infinite” (Latin for “from infinity”) to the origin, symbolised by the number “1”. As an interactive digital installation AB Infinite 1 invites members of the public to become artists themselves, encouraging viewers to alter the digital artwork through a specially designed AI (Artificial Intelligence) mechanism. Andrea’s purpose-built AI collects viewer interactions online through social media channels and turns these reactions or suggestions into visual responses which then appear as part of AB Infinite 1. This represents a new user-friendly form of AI, which does not require the user to be a software specialist or coder in order to manipulate it. Those viewing the installation on Oxford Street, will be able to watch as AB Infinite 1 morphs in appearance as people interact with the piece on social media. He comments: “AB Infinite 1 represents my most profound work so far. It took me years before I had the courage to open up to people and show my art publicly. Once I did that, I went through a cathartic phase that allowed me to better understand who I am. This process is still ongoing, but I can now safely say it’s not a road I am travelling alone. Through compassion and love we need to come together as a community and become one entity. With this spirit I created the first iteration of AB Infinite 1. I consider this artwork as permanently unfinished, as I hope there will always be someone in the future who wants to be part of it together with me.”To make this even more accessible

The EU’s attempt to regulate open-source AI is counterproductive

Wednesday, August 24, 2022

Drawing of hands circling around Earth.

TechTank Podcast Episode 50: How does tech policy fall short in protecting people with disabilities?

Samantha Lai and Alex Engler

Monday, August 8, 2022

Read-out of the College meeting / press conference by Executive Vice-President Vestager and Commissioner Breton on fostering a European approach to Artificial Intelligence, in the European Commission

The limited global impact of the EU AI Act

Tuesday, June 14, 2022

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The EEOC wants to make AI hiring fairer for people with disabilities

Thursday, May 26, 2022

US President Joe Biden points out of frame

The Declaration for the Future of the Internet is for wavering democracies, not China and Russia

Monday, May 9, 2022

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen departs from the White House following her meeting with U.S. President Joe Biden

The EU and U.S. are starting to align on AI regulation

Tuesday, February 1, 2022