Politico September 27, 2024
Hello, and welcome to this week’s edition of the Future in Five Questions. This week I spoke with Rebecca Finlay, a longtime artificial intelligence policy expert who now serves as CEO of the nonprofit Partnership on AI. The group, whose mission is to ensure “developments in AI advance positive outcomes for people and society,” represents industry heavy hitters such as Apple, Meta, OpenAI and Microsoft, bringing them together to develop AI standards that meet those values. We discussed the challenges of ensuring various nations’ policy frameworks for AI sync up, the urgency of preparing the workforce for AI and why she doesn’t necessarily think watermarking AI-generated content is always the answer. An edited and condensed version of the conversation follows:
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