Today, President Biden issued a landmark Executive Order to ensure that America leads the way in seizing the promise and managing the risks of artificial intelligence (AI). The Executive Order establishes new standards for AI safety and security, protects Americans’ privacy, advances equity and civil rights, stands up for consumers and workers, promotes innovation and…
Anyone got the text of the actual executive order? From the fact sheet it seems like while it requires AI companies to notify the government about a bunch of things and send them reports there’s no actual mechanism to stop or ban anything. Its basically just saying hey if you make a big AI model now you gotta notify us about it and write a report about its flaws. They probably wont even know what they are looking at in the reports and it will be released before they decide to do anything about it. Not to mention companies will put the most positive spin on the report possible. Definitely short term bullish for AI at least IMO. Seems like bureaucratic speak to look like you’re regulating AI without actually doing anything significant.
That’s what it seems like to me. Not really any sort of alarming policy, I can’t imagine them releasing anything less then this. It’s just saying if you’re training a model, you need to keep us informed and make sure it’s safe, and to help us make sure the impending AI future doesn’t destroy the economy.
But the cat is out of the bag for large open models, unless there is some sort of massive crackdown. The US is incapable of policing the internet.
EOs have the force of law typically, though their scope can be challenged in court.