| With much of the world’s focus still residing in the Middle East—and the rest rightly directed toward Arlington, Texas, for the Rangers World Series parade later today—the Executive Order issued by President Biden earlier this week has gone largely unnoticed.
It represents the president’s latest attempt to get in front of the increasingly concerning advancements in the realm of artificial intelligence and comes as Vice President Kamala Harris is in Britain to join other world leaders and prominent tech figures in a global discussion on the subject.
Biden’s hope is that the Order “establishes new standards for AI safety and security, protects Americans’ privacy, advances equity and civil rights, stands up for consumers and workers, promotes innovation and competition, advances American leadership around the world, and more.”
To that end, he outlined a number of initiatives that the White House will take to regulate the companies developing the technology, as well as the ways in which both the private and government sectors can use AI going forward. In addition, he also called on Congress to pass legislation that would more formally codify many of those same initiatives—an important, though more difficult, step considering the limits of how far his office can go to enforce these rules.
And while it is impossible to know how much these new initiatives will actually accomplish, there is perhaps reason to hope given that many of the companies at the heart of these issues have partnered with the White House in outlining the next steps. More Here |
