Joe Biden Issues Executive Order To Place More Guardrails Around AI
deadline.comAI companies will be required to share their safety test results with the U.S. government as part of President Biden’s new executive order, designed to mitigate the risks of the emerging technology.
The White House unveiled a series of steps that Biden is taking amid fears that unchecked AI systems will pose danger to safety and security, as well as misinformation.
A big concern is that AI will unleash a wave of “deepfakes,” video and audio that can spread wildly on social media even though it is not real.
The executive order does not require that AI generated content be labeled as such, but it does direct the Department of Commerce to develop standards for authentication and watermarking. “Federal agencies will use these tools to make it easy for Americans to know that the communications they receive from the government are authentic — and set an example for the private sector and governments around the world,” the White House said.
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