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This post is the foreword written by Brad Smith for Microsoft’s report Governing AI: A Blueprint for the Future. The first part of the report details five ways governments should consider policies, laws and regulations around AI. The second part focuses on Microsoft’s internal commitment to ethical AI, showing how the company is both operationalizing and building a culture of responsible AI.

In a democratic society, one of our foundational principles is that no person is above the law. No government is above the law. No company is above the law, and no product or technology should be above the law. This leads to a critical conclusion: People who design and operate AI systems cannot be accountable unless their decisions and actions are subject to the rule of law.

In many ways, this is at the heart of the unfolding AI policy and regulatory debate. How do governments best ensure that AI is subject to the rule of law? In short, what form should new law, regulation and policy take?

Section One of this paper offers a five-point blueprint to address several current and emerging AI issues through public policy, law and regulation. We offer this recognizing that every part of this blueprint will benefit from broader discussion and require deeper development. But we hope this can contribute constructively to the work ahead.

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Chatham Media Group, the Chatham News + Record's owner, has sold the Siler City, North Carolina, newspaper and its other print and digital news products to North State Media.

“We are excited to add the Chatham News + Record to the North State Journal family,” said Neal Robbins, North State Media’s president and the publisher of the North State Journal. “We believe the long-term viability of North Carolina’s independent press lies in local ownership and strategic business planning. This acquisition furthers our goal to elevate the conversation across North Carolina while ensuring local communities are part of that conversation.”

On Wednesday, May 25, James Don “JD” Swartz passed away peacefully at Franklin Woods Hospital.

Immediately after high school, he spent three years in the Merchant Marines. When he returned home in 1958, he began his first job in the newspaper business in Bristol, Virginia. Throughout his business journey, he eventually became president of Worrell Enterprises that consisted of 33 newspapers and three television stations. He ended his career as co-owner of Swartz-Morris Media.

In a memo to staff, Global Business Editor Noreen Gillespie announced that Taiwo Adebayo will join AP to cover the intersection of climate and business in Africa.

Cronkite School faculty member Karen Bordeleau has been inducted into the Rhode Island Journalism Hall of Fame in recognition of a career that has spanned more than four decades and six New England states, particularly benefiting the journalism profession in her native “Ocean State.”