powerful computing efforts launched to boost research

Two major steps towards governmental oversight of artificial intelligence (AI) took place this week in the United States and the United Kingdom. Behind both initiatives are moves by each nation to boost their AI research capabilities, and includ efforts to broaden access to the powerful supercomputers needed to train AIs.

On 30 October, US President Joe Biden signed his nation’s first AI executive order, with a huge swath of directives for US federal agencies to guide the of use AI — and put guardrails on the technology. And on 1–2 Nov, the United Kingdom hosted a…