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In February 2024 the FCC ruled that AI-generated voices in robocalls count as "artificial" under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act, making them subject to the same restrictions as prerecorded calls — a response to a deepfake Biden robocall sent before the New Hampshire primary.
On 27 December 2023 The New York Times sued OpenAI and Microsoft in Manhattan federal court, saying millions of its articles were used without permission to build AI products including ChatGPT — the first such suit by a major US media organisation.
Eleven US authors and a later class action sued OpenAI and Microsoft, alleging the companies copied books without permission to train AI chatbots, part of a wider wave of copyright litigation.
A beta document published by OpenAI in December 2023 that sets out processes to track, evaluate, forecast and protect against catastrophic risks from powerful models, rating models low to critical and barring deployment above medium.
On 8 December 2023 negotiators for the Council and the European Parliament reached a provisional agreement on the AI Act, the file the Council described as the first rules for AI in the world; formal adoption followed in May 2024.
On 1–2 November 2023 the UK hosted the first global AI Safety Summit at Bletchley Park, where 28 countries including the US, China and the EU agreed the Bletchley Declaration on the risks of frontier AI.
On 30 October 2023, President Biden signed Executive Order 14110, a federal directive on AI safety, security and trustworthy use. It set principles and assigned more than 100 actions across government.
On 24 October 2023 California's DMV suspended Cruise's driverless testing and deployment permits with immediate effect, and the company then stopped driverless operations in all markets.
On 20 October 2023 China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology issued guidance on humanoid robots, setting targets for 2025 and 2027 and five groups of tasks covering technology, products, scenarios, ecosystem and support.
On 17 October 2023 the US Bureau of Industry and Security issued three rules updating its October 2022 chip export controls, changing the chip parameters, adding licence exceptions and requirements, and expanding the Entity List.
On 19 September 2023 Anthropic published its Responsible Scaling Policy, a set of protocols for managing catastrophic risks from increasingly capable AI, and described the Long-Term Benefit Trust that oversees changes to it.
An industry body formed on 26 July 2023 by Anthropic, Google, Microsoft and OpenAI to work on the safe and responsible development of frontier AI models, defined as large-scale models that exceed the capabilities of the most advanced existing models.
On 21 July 2023 President Biden convened seven leading AI companies at the White House and secured voluntary commitments covering eight measures, from watermarking AI-generated audio and video to independent safety testing before public release.
On 13 July 2023 China's Cyberspace Administration published the Interim Measures for the Management of Generative AI Services, which took effect on 15 August 2023. They apply to generative AI services offered to the public in mainland China.
On 30 May 2023 the Center for AI Safety published a one-sentence statement arguing that mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority, and leading researchers and lab executives signed it.
On 16 May 2023 Sam Altman testified before a US Senate Judiciary subcommittee in his first appearance before Congress, asking lawmakers to regulate powerful AI models through licensing and testing.
On 22 March 2023 the Future of Life Institute published an open letter asking all AI labs to pause for at least six months the training of systems more powerful than GPT-4, and proposing governance measures for advanced AI.
In January 2023 three artists filed a class-action copyright suit against Stability AI, Midjourney and DeviantArt, saying their image generators were trained on artists' work without permission — an early test of how copyright law applies to generative AI.
China's cyberspace, industry and public security authorities issued provisions regulating deep synthesis — text, images, audio, video and virtual scenes produced by generative algorithms — requiring labels on synthetic content. They took effect on 10 January 2023.
On 7 October 2022 the US Bureau of Industry and Security issued two rules restricting China's access to advanced computing chips, supercomputer development and advanced chip manufacturing, setting thresholds that later shaped how Nvidia sold chips in China.
China's rules on algorithm-generated recommendation, jointly issued by four departments, took effect on 1 March 2022. They impose registration, content review and data-protection duties on providers and ban models that induce addiction or manipulate rankings and search results.
