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HAI recently published its annual Artificial Intelligence Index Report, which Wald helped to oversee
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Wald talks to them about the AI competition between the U.S. and China, and the advent of “world models” that predict what might happen in real-world environments.
Key facts
- It’s not an apples-to-apples comparison, but although the U.S. has about $285 billion in private investment in AI, and China has a little over $12 billion, [China] has still been able to close
- Russell Wald is the executive director of the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence, an organization dedicated to advancing AI research and policy that focuses
- Kevin Hassett, the director of the White House National Economic Council, said in a Fox Business interview Wednesday that the administration was considering an executive order that would include
- The Create AI Act [for a national AI research resource] … would be a great start
Summary
Russell Wald is the executive director of the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence, an organization dedicated to advancing AI research and policy that focuses on the technology’s impact on people. HAI recently published its annual Artificial Intelligence Index Report, which Wald helped to oversee. World models and their impact on governance. Deeply funding academia much more than it is. The Create AI Act … would be a great start. The reporter thinks it’s more about understanding what the impact will be and to double down on it. The reporter is going to go back to a book that the reporter read in high school, but still affects me: “ Hiroshima ” by John Hersey.