The White House’s shambolic AI policy

Credit where credit is due; ChatGPT (free edition) did a good job with my prompt.Where is the US with respect to AI policy? It’s a mess.Let’s start with Trump’s Executive Order from June 2, and then turn to last night’s Commerce order; neither gets things right. (I will end with some suggestions about what might better).As I noted when the EO came out (seems like a lifetime ago, even though it is actually less than two weeks!) I thought it was fantastic that Trump has issued an executive order that encourages AI companies to do some preflight testing.But at the same time, the part of the EO on preflight testing is too weak. It is voluntary; and too narrow, focused primarily on cybersecurity. Companies can choose to...

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