Happy Tuesday!

In Today’s Email:

• How safe is Tesla FSD? 🚗

• Grimes 🤝 AI-generated music

• Microsoft group pushes for AI regulation 🖇️

How safe is Tesla FSD? 🚗

Tesla’s Full Self-Driving (FSD) has been in the works for years.

Is it really that good?

The auto manufacturer recently unveiled some stats about the tech.

• FSD beta users have 0.31 accidents per 1 million miles.

• Autopilot users have 0.18 accidents per 1 million miles

• Teslas with no active safety measures engaged in 0.68 accidents per 1 million miles

• The industry standard for vehicles in the U.S. is 1.53 accidents per 1 million miles

Although the numbers are impressive, FSD is still in beta. When the technology was first rolled out, many Tesla owners complained about glitches in the software which caused a rollback of the software. The majority of Tesla owners are yet to receive the technology. The Tesla Autopilot feature has gained popularity as it allows drivers to use the car hands-free, even allowing for several functions autonomously.

When will FSD be available? No one really knows. Tesla CEO Elon Musk recently said that full autonomy may be achieved this year through FSD. He suggest the technology was trending towards full self-driving. 🤞

When do you think it’ll be available?

Grimes 🤝 AI-generated music

AI-generated music has been all the hype recently.

Some artists are cracking down on it. While others like Grimes, are embracing it. The pop singer recently took to Twitter to talk about it, “I think it’s cool to be fused w a machine and I like the idea of open-sourcing all art and killing copyright.”

Fans started flooding her replies with songs they’ve created using her vocal likeness. The artist, whose real name is Claire Boucher, went on to say she’s looking forward to being a “guinea pig” for such projects. This isn’t her first time supporting AI-generated art. In 2020 she worked with Endel, an ambient music startup, to launch an AI baby lullaby app.

This raises bigger questions about the legality of AI-generated art. Last week, a viral hit called “Heart on My Sleeve” featuring the voices of Drake and The Weeknd blew up. It’s since been removed from streaming and social media platforms for “copyright violations.”

Microsoft group pushes for AI regulation 🖇️

With rapid AI development comes not-so-rapid AI regulation.

BSA, a tech advocacy group, is pushing for rules governing AI in national privacy legislation. The group is backed by Microsoft and represents business software companies like Oracle, IBM, and Adobe. The four key protections being advocated are:

• Congress should make clear requirements for when companies must evaluate the designs or impact of AI.

• Those requirements should kick in when AI is used to make “consequential decisions,” which Congress should also define.

• Congress should designate an existing federal agency to review company certifications of compliance with the rules.

• Companies should be required to develop risk-management programs for high-risk AI.

“It’s not meant to be the answer to every question about AI, but it’s an important answer to an important question about AI that Congress can get done,” said Craig Albright, vice president of U.S. government relations at BSA. “What we’re saying is, this is available. This is something that can reach agreement, that can be bipartisan, and so our hope is that however they’re going to legislate, this will be a part of it.”

As Europe and China push towards finalizing AI legislation, the U.S. seems to be behind.

Should we be concerned?

That’s it for today! We’ll see you back here tomorrow!