Trump’s executive order, signed Monday evening, guts the 2023 executive order that Biden issued to regulate AI. Given their opposition to the Biden-era guidelines, AI proponents and companies in Silicon Valley are likely pleased with the move.
The scrapped Biden directive required AI companies to share key safety information with the federal government. It also required companies such as Google and Microsoft to share test results on their new AI models with the federal government before those models are released to the public.
The Biden mandate also formed the U.S. AI Safety Institute within the Commerce Department. The institute’s goal was to “identify, measure, and mitigate the risks of advanced AI systems” to harness the technology’s potential.
“To realize the promise of AI and avoid the risk, we need to govern this technology,” Biden said when he first announced his executive order.
With Trump’s rescission of the Biden order, there is no longer a regulatory framework for AI in place. When contacted by the Washington Examiner, representatives from both Nvidia and Microsoft declined to comment on the move by Trump.
Of note, the Senate engaged in discussions about developing a legal and regulatory framework in 2023 and 2024. The bipartisan Senate AI Working Group released a road map for policy priorities with AI that should merit bipartisan consideration in the House and Senate, although no significant legislation has been passed to that end.
Artificial intelligence has greatly proliferated in the past year alone, and the regulatory push comes because officials and activists have raised fears about AI and the ways it could harm users.
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While Trump further curbed AI regulation with his order, Europe notably passed a comprehensive regulatory framework for AI last year.
It is not yet clear whether Trump will follow his recission of Biden’s AI order with his own executive order related to AI.
