Daily Digest on AI and Emerging Technologies

Daily Digest on AI and Emerging Technologies (7 February 2025)

Top of the Day What Google’s return to defense AI means (Patrick Tucker – Defense One – 6 February 2025) Google has discarded its self-imposed ban on using AI in weapons, a step that simultaneously drew praise and criticism, marked a new entrant in a hot field, and underscored how the Pentagon—not any single company—must […]

Daily Digest on AI and Emerging Technologies (6 February 2025)

Top of the Day Google Revises AI Ethics Policy, Drops Ban on Weapons and Surveillance (AI Insider – 5 February 2025) Google has removed its explicit commitment to avoiding AI applications for weapons and surveillance in an update to its AI Principles. Previously, the company pledged not to develop AI technologies that could cause harm, […]

Daily Digest on AI and Emerging Technologies (5 February 2025)

Top of the Day What Would a ‘Sputnik Moment’ for US–China AI Competition Look Like? (Huw Roberts – RUSI – 4 February 2025) On 4 October 1957, the Soviet Union launched Sputnik 1, the world’s first artificial satellite, into orbit. This launch sparked panic in the US on account of the perceived capabilities gap between […]

Daily Digest on AI and Emerging Technologies (4 February 2025)

Top of the Day   The AI Action Summit and beyond: 3 Steps to strengthen global AI collaboration   (Niki Iliadis , Constance de Leusse, Kevin Luca Zandermann, Tereza Zoumpalova – OECD.AI – 3 February 2025) Beginning with Bletchley Park in 2023 and Seoul in 2024, the AI Summit series has reached a pivotal moment. […]

Daily Digest on AI and Emerging Technologies (3 February 2025)

Top of the Day Italy blocks Chinese AI tool DeepSeek over privacy concerns (Suzanne Smalley – The Record – 31 January 2024) Italy’s data protection authority on Thursday announced it has banned DeepSeek from operating in the country after the Chinese artificial intelligence company told regulators it does not fall under the purview of European […]

Daily Digest on AI and Emerging Technologies (31 January 2025)

Top of the Day Non-binding guiding principles on preventing, detecting and disrupting the use of new and emerging financial technologies for terrorist purposes released in official UN languages (UN CTED – 29 January 2025) On 6 January 2025, the United Nations Security Council Counter-Terrorism Committee adopted the “Non-binding guiding principles on preventing, detecting and disrupting […]

Daily Digest on AI and Emerging Technologies (30 January 2025)

Top of the Day Does China’s DeepSeek Mean U.S. AI Is Sunk? (Sam Bresnick – Newsweek/Center for Security and Emerging Technology – 29 January 2025) Last week, the Chinese startup DeepSeek sent shockwaves through the global technology community when it unveiled a powerful new open-source AI system. The model, known as R1, reportedly matched the […]

Daily Digest on AI and Emerging Technologies (29 January 2025)

Top of the Day   What DeepSeek r1 Means—and What It Doesn’t   (Dean W. Ball – Lawfare – 28 January 2025) On Jan. 20, the Chinese AI company DeepSeek released a language model called r1, and the AI community (as measured by X, at least) has talked about little else since. The model is […]

Daily Digest on AI and Emerging Technologies (28 January 2025)

Governance and Legislation   How might standard contract terms help unlock responsible AI data sharing?   (Lee Tiedrich, Elena Simperl, Gefion Thuermer, Thomas Carey-Wilson – OECD.AI – 27 January 2025) As artificial intelligence (AI) technology advances, reshaping industries and society, the urgency to develop robust frameworks for responsibly sharing data for AI use cases becomes […]

Daily Digest on AI and Emerging Technology (27 January 2025)

Governance and Legislation   Cyber diplomacy funding halted as US issues broad freeze on foreign aid   (Martin Matishak – The Record – 25 January 2025) The U.S. State Department’s move to halt nearly all existing foreign assistance applies to the programs and funds of its relatively young cyber diplomacy bureau, according to two people […]

Daily Digest on AI and Emerging Technologies (24 January 2025)

Governance and Legislation   Trump signs AI executive order   (Alexandra Kelley, Frank Konkel, Natalie Alms – NextGov – 23 January 2025) President Trump Thursday signed an executive order calling for the development of an AI action plan within 180 days that would “sustain and enhance America’s global AI dominance.”. “The United States has long […]

Daily Digest on AI and Emerging Technologies (23 January 2025)

Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism   Algeria announces the non-binding guiding principles for Member States on preventing, detecting and disrupting the use of new and emerging financial technologies for terrorist purposes (UN CTED – 21 January 2025)  On Tuesday, 21 January 2025, the Security Council held an open debate on “African-led and development-focused counter-terrorism: strengthening African leadership […]