College enrollment disparities by socioeconomic status, gender, and race have persisted in America since the 1980s. Sarah Reber, Simran Kalkat, and Gabriela Goodman build on earlier work to examine the relationship between inequality in college enrollment and disparities in academic preparation and opportunities to learn.
AI safety and security in Africa. The recently announced Africa AI Council aims to assist African states to develop the emerging AI industry and establish Africa as an AI-driven global economy. In a new policy brief, Joanna Wiaterek, Cecil Abungu, and Chinasa T. Okolo discuss the crucial need for strengthening AI safety in Africa and propose recommendations to equip the Council with a regional approach to building sovereign AI security capacity.
Moratorium on state AI regulation. As AI rapidly evolves, U.S. states are introducing their own legislation with nearly 700 regulatory bills in 2024 alone. Nicol Turner Lee and Josie Stewart caution that a provision in the current budget reconciliation process—proposing a 10-year federal moratorium on state AI laws—could severely limit state oversight on privacy and civil rights.
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