🔙 Throwback Thursday for 2025-09-11
Today means many different things for many different people.
A post on governing by AI vs. governing of AI, caught my eye.
Albania appoints an AI bot named Diella as the minister for managing and awarding all public procurement tenders, to combat corruption around such contracts
From Reuters. View the full context on Techmeme.
Notable headlines in recent years are interesting to consider.
2024
A UN advisory body makes seven recommendations for governing AI, including establishing a panel to provide impartial and reliable scientific knowledge about AI
By Supantha Mukherjee / Reuters. View the full context on Techmeme.
2023
A US GAO review of nearly 24 agencies' AI usage catalogs 200+ current applications and 500+ planned uses of AI and ML, despite the lack of government guidance
From CNN. View the full context on Techmeme.
2022
The White House's new AI Bill of Rights, which would let users opt out of algorithmic decision-making, is nonbinding and so will have little impact on companies
By Khari Johnson / Wired. View the full context on Techmeme.
2021
GAO: 19 of 24 US government agencies surveyed use facial recognition in some capacity; DoD and DHS both have in-house systems, while 4 had used Clearview AI
By Russell Brandom / The Verge. View the full context on Techmeme.
