United States President Joe Biden has issued a sweeping executive order to regulate the development of artificial intelligence (AI) amid growing concern about its potential impact on everything from national security to public health.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cTo realise the promise of AI and avoid the risk, we need to govern this technology,\u201d Biden said on Thursday. \u201cIn the wrong hands, AI can make it easier for hackers to exploit vulnerabilities in the software that makes our society run.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The executive order includes a provision that developers of the most powerful AI models must notify the government of their work and share safety test results.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It also calls on the National Institute of Standards and Technology to establish \u201crigorous standards\u201d for testing AI prior to its release, the Department of Commerce to develop guidelines for identifying AI-generated content, and agencies funding \u201clife science projects\u201d to establish \u201cstrong new standards of biological synthesis screening\u201d to ensure AI cannot engineer biohazards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Biden also called on Congress to pass data privacy legislation and for the Department of Justice to address \u201calgorithmic discrimination\u201d among landlords and federal benefits programmes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
White House Deputy Chief of Staff Bruce Reed hailed the measures as \u201cthe strongest set of actions any government in the world has ever taken on AI safety, security and trust\u201d and the \u201cnext step in an aggressive strategy to do everything on all fronts to harness the benefits of AI and mitigate the risks\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Fears about the risks of AI have grown exponentially since the release last year of Open AI\u2019s ChatGPT, whose capabilities caught regulators and government officials around the world off guard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n