This has been a busy week in the tech world, particularly regarding artificial intelligence’s rapid march—Google finally detailed how it’s stuffing A.I. into every crevice of its being at its developer conference on Wednesday, and Microsoft continued doing much the same. But if innovation is happening at speed, countervailing regulation is also gathering momentum. Here’s a quick rundown of developments just from the last couple days.
Let’s start in the U.S., where Minnesota lawmakers just passed a bill tackling the nascent problem of deepfakes. Under the bill, people could have to pay up to $10,000 in fines, or go to prison for up to five years, if they are caught non-consensually disseminating deepfake sexual images of other people, or if they spread deepfakes in the hope of influencing an election.
