{"id":7618,"date":"2024-05-16T18:31:34","date_gmt":"2024-05-16T18:31:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tup.kxe.temporary.site\/ai-powered-martech-releases-and-news-may-16\/"},"modified":"2024-05-16T18:31:34","modified_gmt":"2024-05-16T18:31:34","slug":"ai-powered-martech-releases-and-news-may-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/okdesign.ca\/en\/ai-powered-martech-releases-and-news-may-16\/","title":{"rendered":"AI-powered martech releases and news: May 16"},"content":{"rendered":"


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A group of U.S. senators including Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-NY) released a proposed roadmap for AI policy yesterday. The senators, perhaps unaware of the jaw-dropping amount of private sector money going into AI, recommended raising federal spending for nondefense AI innovation to at least $32 billion annually.<\/p>\n

The group, which calls itself \u201cThe Senate AI Gang\u201d (Is there a secret handshake?<\/em>), compiled the list of policy suggestions after a year of holding forums privately and publicly with a range of technology companies and other stakeholders, including X owner and Tesla CEO Elon Musk, Meta\u2019s Mark Zuckerberg, former Microsoft CEO Bill Gates and Google CEO Sundar Pichai.<\/p>\n

It may not be surprising to learn that tech industry groups are largely supportive of the roadmap, while those focused on things other than profit margins largely aren\u2019t.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThis road map leads to a dead end,\u201d Evan Greer, the director of Fight for the Future, an advocacy group, said in a statement, and calling the plan \u201cpathetic.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Alondra Nelson, former acting director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, participated in one of the forums. She said in a statement that she was dismayed to see \u201cthe civil society organizations and academic researchers \u2026 outnumbered by industry executives.\u201d<\/p>\n

Nelson, now a professor at the Institute for Advanced Studies, called the roadmap \u201ctoo flimsy to protect our values\u201d and lacking \u201curgency and seriousness.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is, in fact, striking for its lack of vision,\u201d Nelson wrote. \u201cThe Senate roadmap doesn\u2019t point us toward a future in which patients, workers, and communities are protected from the current and future excesses of the use of AI tools and systems. What it does point to is government spending, not on accountability, but on relieving the private sector of their burdens of accountability.\u201d<\/p>\n

This recalls a point made by Adam Smith, the father of capitalism, in \u201cThe Wealth of Nations\u201d:<\/p>\n

\u201cWhenever the legislature attempts to regulate the differences between masters and their workmen, its counselors are always the masters. When the regulation, therefore, is in favor of the workmen, it is always just and equitable; but it is sometimes otherwise when in favor of the masters.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n

Now here are this week\u2019s AI-powered martech features, launches and releases.<\/p>\n