How Obama helped President Biden draft the AI executive order

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Obama -- who has been interested in AI -- assisted the Biden team with the plan.

Former President Barack Obama and President Joe Biden attend a rally, Nov. 5, 2022, in Philadelphia.White House's new artificial intelligence policy

On Monday, Biden rolled out the administration's AI policy, culminating with an executive order he signed. The plan also includes a task force run by the Department of Commerce to study and research emerging AI trends. Biden's executive order aims to safeguard against threats posed by artificial intelligence, ensuring that bad actors do not use the technology to develop devastating weapons or mount supercharged cyberattacks.

In 2016, the Obama White House released a report on how artificial intelligence could shape the world going forward, and since then the former president has been engaged in ways AI and the government would coexist.Lokman Vural Elibol/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images "President Biden has taken the most significant actions on AI than any government anywhere in the world. He directed his team to move fast and pull every lever," White House Chief of Staff Jeff Zients told ABC News in a statement. "And one of the best levers we have is listening to the experts: from civil society to tech innovators to scientists -- and even former presidents.

 

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Biden quietly tapped Obama to help shape his AI strategyMonica Alba is a White House correspondent for NBC News.
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