Commerce official: U.S. to work with allies to address ‘authoritarian’ use of AI

The U.S. is working with allies to identify shared priorities for the use of artificial intelligence as a first step toward addressing the use of technology for surveillance by authoritarian governments, a Commerce official said Tuesday. The U.S. has said it hopes to keep some advanced technologies, including AI, out of the hands of authoritarian governments like China’s. The Trump administration enacted a series of export controls, sometimes citing China’s human rights abuses in the Xinjiang province, on advanced technologies...