Introducing MIT Technology Review Roundtables, real-time conversations about what’s next in tech

On August 10, MIT Technology Review is launching Roundtables, a participatory subscriber-only on-line occasion collection, to maintain you knowledgeable about rising tech.

Subscribers will get unique entry to 30-minute month-to-month conversations with our writers and editors about matters they’re considering deeply about—together with synthetic intelligence, biotechnology, local weather change, tech coverage, and extra. (If you’re not but a subscriber, change into one as we speak and save as much as 17%.)

There is little doubt that generative AI will have an effect on the financial system—however how, precisely, stays an open query. Despite fears that these AI instruments will upend jobs and exacerbate wealth inequality, early proof suggests the expertise might assist stage the enjoying subject—however provided that we deploy it in the precise methods. Likewise, the Inflation Reduction Act and the Chips Act each have enormous implications for the financial system, and for efforts to revive America’s high-tech manufacturing base. Rotman and Honan will take a look at who stands to learn from these transformative financial occasions, and what the dangers are. 

Then, on September 12, our next version of Roundtables will sort out one other vital query: How ought to we regulate AI? Charlotte Jee, information editor, and Melissa Heikkilä, senior reporter for AI, will focus on the state of AI regulation as we speak and what to observe for in the months forward.

Europe’s AI Act focuses on creating guardrails for “high-risk” AI used in well being care and schooling techniques. In the US, a patchwork of federal laws and state legal guidelines govern sure facets of automated techniques, whereas work on a federal framework stays in the early phases. Meanwhile, the OECD has set forth a set of nonbinding ideas for AI improvement, and new business requirements are additionally taking form. Heikkilä and Jee will stroll subscribers by way of these and different approaches, mapping out the panorama of proposed insurance policies that goal to redirect AI towards serving societal objectives or handle potential biases that put individuals in danger. 

If you’re a subscriber, examine your electronic mail for particulars on methods to register for each occasions. (Or subscribe now to avoid wasting as much as 17%.) We hope you will be a part of us as we discover what’s taking place now and what’s coming next in rising applied sciences.