It’s going to take time for tech leaders in both government and private sectors to figure out all the implications of President Joe Biden’s sweeping new executive order regulating artificial intelligence. Since its Oct. 30 release, the 63-page executive order has triggered a whole-government avalanche of agency policy briefings, inquiry launches and press statements. The world’s tech titans have likewise exploded into a flurry of activity, from individual social platform rants to joint statements to the United Nations. Digital rights advocates, meanwhile, are leery of the order’s lack of protection against government surveillance tech.
“AI is all around us,” Biden said while signing the order. “To realize the promise of AI and avoid the risk, we need to govern this technology.”
