Welcome to the Tech Me Right Home for Monday, October 30th, 2023. I'm Brian McCullough today.

Governments around the world announce guardrails for AI, or at least suggest some. Open AI take steps to keep you

from going to plugins. Meta seems serious about offering a subscription option to

Europeans, your earbuds are about to get smarter, and how AI might finally give us a useful robot.

Here's what you miss today in the world of tech.

Global authorities are at least making a show of putting up some sort of

AI regulatory framework today. For example, President Joe Biden has signed an

executive order on generative AI, directing the NIST, DHS, and other agencies to create new safety standards, protect privacy, support workers, and more, quoting the Verge.

The National Institute of Standards and Safety, NIST, will be responsible for developing standards

to Red Team AI models before public release, while the Department of Energy and

Department of Homeland Security are directed to address the potential

threat of AI to infrastructure and the chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear,

and cybersecurity risks.

Developers of large AI models like Open AIs,

GPT, and Met Islama 2 are required to share

safety test results.

The Biden administration would only provide a briefing sourced to a senior official who said quote

We're not going to recall publicly available models that are out there the official said

existing models are still subject to the anti-discrimination rules already in place."

To protect users privacy, the White House called on Congress to pass data privacy regulations.

The order also seeks federal support for the development of

privacy-preserving techniques and technologies. Part of the Order plans to

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