President Biden’s new plan to regulate AI
Since the widespread release of generative AI systems like ChatGPT, there’s been an increasingly loud call to regulate them, given how powerful, transformative, and potentially dangerous the technology can be. President Joe Biden’s long-promised Executive Order on the Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence is an attempt to do just that, through the lens of the administration’s stated goals and within the limits of the executive branch’s power. The order, which the president signed on Monday, builds on previous administration efforts to ensure that powerful AI systems are safe and being used responsibly. “This landmark executive order is a testament of what we stand for: safety,…