‘AI accountability agenda’: US senator unveils package of bills to curb tech’s harms

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US Senator Ed Markey introduced a legislative package aimed at addressing the risks associated with artificial intelligence, including data center energy consumption, biased algorithms, workplace surveillance, and economic inequality. The proposed bills seek to regulate AI technologies to mitigate harm to children and workers.

Exclusive: Senator Ed Markey on why he has proposed legislation aimed at curbing datacenters, automated hiring systems and harm to children US senator Ed Markey is worried about the perils of unregulated artificial intelligence. What part? All of it: the costs associated with thirsty, energy-guzzling datacenters, intrusive workplace surveillance, bias in discriminatory algorithms, AI overriding workers’ judgments, and deepening economic inequality – as those who profit most from AI rake in extraordinary windfalls. Continue reading...