has injected a degree of certainty into a chaotic year of debate about what legal guardrails are needed for powerful AI systems.The U.S. will have some measure of government oversight of the most advanced AI projects. It won't have licensing requirements or rules requiring that companies disclose training data sources, model size and other important details.Biden's approach is more carrot than stick, but it could be enough to move the U.S.
Its provisions will not only apply to the generative AI programs that have captured public imagination over the past year, but to "any machine-based system that makes predictions, recommendations or decisions," per anDevelopers of new "dual-use foundation models" that could pose risks to "national security, national economic security, or national public health and safety" will need to provide updates to the federal government before and after deployment — including...
The testing rules will apply to AI models whose training used "a quantity of computing power greater than 10 to the power of 26It's not clear what action, if any, the government could take if it's not happy with the test results a company provides.Every federal agency will designate a Chief AI Officer within 60 days and an interagency AI Council will coordinate federal action.
The order commits to "ease AI professionals' path into the Federal Government" and offer expanded AI training to bureaucrats.The order does not mandate the release of details about training data and model size, which many experts and critics argue is essential for understanding the technology and anticipating its potential harms.