It’s worth noting that this massive executive order builds on a few years of action from the administration, including the Commerce Department’s release of a Risk Management Framework, the more recent voluntary principles negotiated with major AI companies, and the White House’s Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights. The White House’s executive order comes days before world leaders head to the United Kingdom for a major summit on “ AI Safety.” Amid a flurry of partner government and multilateral regulation, convenings, and conversations, the administration is clearly trying to both make its mark in a crowded space and begin to make sense of the AI landscape within the powers it has. The US still must have hard conversations about AI He also held senior positions at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy in the Obama and Trump administrations. He previously served at the National Science Foundation as assistant to the director for science policy and planning. Lloyd Whitman is the senior director of the Atlantic Council’s GeoTech Center. US leadership on AI will require bipartisan recognition of the opportunities and challenges AI presents for our economic security and national security, and thoughtful legislation ensuring a balanced, transparent, and accountable approach to promoting and protecting this critical emerging technology. While priority-setting, principles and best practices, frameworks, and guidance across the federal AI landscape are important, much of the teeth of this order will require rule-making and other administrative actions that take time, are subject to judicial review, and can be revoked by a future administration. But an executive order can only do so much, limited by the existing authorities and appropriations of the executive branch agencies. The Biden-Harris administration has taken strong action with the comprehensive executive order on safe, secure, and trustworthy AI. Graham Brookie is the vice president and senior director of the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab.Įxecutive action alone won’t get the job done As policy is set, it will be extremely important for government bodies to “walk the walk” as well. What stands out the most is not necessarily the rules set out for industry or broader society, but rather the rules for how the government itself will begin to consider the deployment of AI, with security being at the core. It is a clear signal from the United States ahead of the AI Safety Summit in the United Kingdom later this week. This executive order is an opening salvo not meant to be comprehensive or final, but it sets a significant policy agenda as other bodies-including Congress and aligned international partners-consider next steps. The proliferation of AI governance efforts this year at nearly every level, including local, national, multinational, multi-stakeholder, and more, has been a natural extension of the rapid deployment of AI and industry reorientation around it. The Biden administration’s executive order on AI is a simple, pragmatic step forward in coherent and connective tech policy. What stands out are the implications for AI use in the US government Steven Tiell: The executive order is vast in scope-and the equivalent of vaporwareĬarole House: A bold, comprehensive vision facing potential challenges with implementation Ramayya Krishnan: US leadership on AI will create new opportunities for workers and businesses Rachel Gillum: A potential catalyst for responsible private sector innovation Maia Hamin: A one-two punch to put the US on a path toward standardized testing of AI models Burwell: The order lacks the legislation with enforcement of Europe’s AI Act Campbell: This aggressive but necessary order will introduce regulatory burdens on AIįrances G. Trisha Ray: Establishing AI ethics is a task the US must tackle with allies and partners Rose Jackson: The US still must have hard conversations about AI Lloyd Whitman: Executive action alone won’t get the job done Graham Brookie: What stands out are the implications for AI use in the US government Will it be effective? Below, our own “thinking machines”-that is, Atlantic Council experts-share their insights. After observing the rapid development of artificial intelligence (AI) in recent months, US President Joe Biden issued an executive order on Monday intended to modify how humans use these “thinking machines.” The thinking behind the order is to make AI safer, more secure, and more trustworthy. “Can machines think?” The mathematician Alan Turing posed this question in 1950, imagining a future human-like machine that observed the results of its own behavior and modified itself to be more effective. OctoExperts react: What does Biden’s new executive order mean for the future of AI?
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