President @JoeBiden has signed an #executiveorder providing rules around #generativeAI, ahead of an

President @JoeBiden has signed an #executiveorder providing rules around #generativeAI, ahead of any legislation coming from #lawmakers. The order has eight goals: to create new standards for AI #safety and security, protect privacy, advance equity and civil rights, stand up for consumers, patients, and students, support workers, promote innovation and competition, advance US leadership in AI technologies, and ensure the responsible and effective government use of the technology.

Several #government #agencies are #tasked with creating #standards to protect against the use of AI to engineer biological materials, establish best practices around content authentication, and build advanced cybersecurity programs. The National Institute of Standards and Safety (#NIST) will be responsible for developing standards to “red team” AI models before public release, while the Department of Energy and Department of Homeland Security are directed to address the potential threat of AI to infrastructure and the chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, and cybersecurity risks. Developers of large AI models like @OpenAI’s #GPT and @Meta’s #Llama 2 are required to share safety test results.

The @WhiteHouse would only provide a briefing sourced to a senior official who said: “We’re not going to recall publicly available models that are out there,” the official said. “Existing models are still subject to the anti-discrimination rules already in place.” To protect users’ privacy, the White House called on Congress to pass data privacy regulations. The order also seeks federal support for the #development of “#privacy-preserving” techniques and technologies.

Part of the order plans to prevent the use of #AI to #discriminate, including addressing #algorithmic #discrimination and ensuring fairness when utilizing the technology for sentencing, parole, and #surveillance. It also orders government agencies to provide guidelines for landlords, Federal benefits programs, and contracts on how to prevent AI from exacerbating discrimination.

#Agencies are directed to address #job #displacement and produce a #report on the #impact of #AI on the labor market. The White House also wants to encourage more workers to work in the AI ecosystem and ordered the launch of a National AI Research Resource to provide key information to students and AI researchers and access to technical assistance for small businesses. It also directed the rapid hiring of AI professionals for the government.

The Biden administration first released an AI Bill of Rights outlining a set of principles developers of AI models should follow, which were later turned into a series of agreements between the White House and several AI players, including Meta, Google, OpenAI, Nvidia, and Adobe. However, an executive order is not a permanent law and generally only lasts the length of Biden’s administration. Industry observers said the executive order is at least a step forward in providing standards around generative AI.

President Biden has gathered his aides in the Oval Office to review and finalize an executive order on AI, which aims to address the potential dangers of AI technology. The president was deeply interested in AI technology during months of meetings, including discussions with his science advisory council, Cabinet, tech executives, and civil society advocates. He was impressed by the potential for fake AI images, bad poetry, and voice cloning.