Biden staff are meeting regularly to develop AI strategy, White House says
The meetings are the latest piece of the administration’s push to understand and eventually regulate the wide-ranging impacts the technology has on the country. ...
Professor Fei-Fei Li, one of the experts who participated in the meeting, described the conversation as “extremely engaged,” with the president “not just listening but asking questions.”
“It was very, very balanced and thoughtful,” Li said about the tone of the conversation with Biden. ...
The Biden administration’s newest steps will build on the existing “Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights,” a set of principles released in October that seek to guide the administration’s approach to ensuring privacy and equity alongside the use of the technology. These guidelines warn against algorithmic discrimination, urge data protection and underscore human alternatives to AI abilities. Biden has also signed an executive order that directs federal agencies to rid new technologies of bias. ...
The U.S. is also playing catch-up internationally on the topic, as China and the EU have either passed legislation or set rules putting guardrails on the use of AI. Individual states have already pushed to regulate AI, including Colorado, which passed a law in July 2021 that requires insurance companies to test algorithms for bias. ...
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