Welcome to The Daily 202! Tell your friends to sign up here. In an interview with France 24, Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh described Israel’s goals of eliminating Hamas as unrealistic.  The big idea A.I. and nuclear decisions shouldn’t mix, U.S. says ahead of Biden-Xi summit “They say it got smart. A new order…

I began this essay as a comment in response to a cartoon which appeared as one of the “diaries” on Daily Kos.  Realizing that it was a long comment, I decided I might as well turn it, for all the good doing so will accomplish, into a diary in its own rightl I find the…

Law Firms Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP Follow November 9, 2023 – According to the National AI Advisory Committee, which is tasked with advising the President and others on topics related to artificial intelligence, AI “is one of the most powerful and transformative technologies of our time” with the capacity to “address society’s…

Artificial intelligence could cause a financial crisis with “catastrophic” consequences, according to the historian and author Yuval Noah Harari, who says the technology’s sophistication makes forecasting its dangers difficult. Harari told the Guardian a concern about safety testing AI models was foreseeing all the problems that a powerful system could cause. Unlike with nuclear weapons,…

Hospitality is all about people: making them feel welcome, comfortable, and appreciated. Excellent guest experiences often center around attentive service and a personal touch. So what would happen if some of that human element were augmented by artificial intelligence – or replaced by it? Would it improve service, or make it feel robotic? In this…

BT’s technology chief, Harmeen Mehta, has suggested workers whose jobs are threatened by AI accept their fate as “evolution”, comparing them to horses replaced by the car. In an interview with the business website Raconteur, Mehta said: “I don‘t know how horses felt when the car was invented, but they didn’t complain that they were…

Last night, Motier Ventures held a tech meetup focused on AI startups featuring some of the most hyped tech startups in the French tech ecosystem, Dust, Finegrain, Gladia, Mistral AI and Scenario — all of them are portfolio companies of Motier Ventures. And you could feel a sense of excitement both on stage and in…

AI can now pass the bar exam and ace the SAT. But can it spit game? GQ tested a new “dating assistant” app to find out. By Rae Witte November 9, 2023 Photograph: Getty Images; Collage: Gabe Conte Technology has permanently changed the experience of finding love. And although the Tinder “swipe,” which was introduced…

This is a guest opinion column If the headlines are true, artificial intelligence is either Silicon Valley’s greatest invention or will destroy digital privacy and devastate middle-income jobs. Fortunately, the extreme headlines are not accurate, but here in Birmingham and across America, AI is being developed and used in ways that should deliver extraordinary results…

The Department of State released its first-ever “Enterprise Artificial Intelligence Strategy FY 2024-2025:  Empowering Diplomacy through Responsible AI” (EAIS) on November 9, 2023. Signed by Secretary Blinken, the EAIS establishes a centralized vision for artificial intelligence (AI) innovation, infrastructure, policy, governance, and culture by inaugurating Department-wide guidance for the responsible and ethical design, development, acquisition,…