Hello and welcome to Eye on AI. In this edition…Yoshua Bengio’s new AI safety nonprofit…Meta seeks to automate ad creation and targeting…Snitching AI models…and a deep dive on the energy consumption of AI.
I spent last week in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, at the Fortune ASEAN-GCC Economic Forum, where I moderated two of the many on-stage discussions that touched on AI. It was clear from the conference that leaders in Southeast Asia and the Gulf are desperate to ensure their countries benefit from the AI revolution. But they are also concerned about “AI Sovereignty” and want to control their own destiny when it comes to AI technology. They want to control key parts of the AI tech stack—from data centers to data to AI models and applications—so that they are not wholly dependent on technology being created in the U.S. or China.
