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What next for AI Safety Institutes?

Officials gather in San Francisco this week to hammer out how these agencies can set international standards. Their work is engulfed in uncertainty.
What next for AI Safety Institutes?
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IT'S MONDAY, AND THIS IS DIGITAL POLITICS. I'm Mark Scott, and will be on the road over the next couple of weeks. I'm in Berlin on Nov 21-22 and then Paris on Nov 27-28. If you're in town and want to meet, drop me a line here.

— Officials from nine countries and those from the European Union gather in San Francisco this week to hash out AI safety. I talk to Natasha Crampton, Microsoft's chief responsible AI officer.

— We're weeks away before Europe's new digital bosses take their seats in the Berlaymont Building in Brussels. Let's unpack last week's hearings at the European Parliament.

— The annual United Nations climate change talks finish up in Azerbaijan on Nov 22. The carbon footprint for the latest AI models is pretty bad.

Let's get started:

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