The White House released a top-level summary of the order's main points ahead of the signing ceremony on Monday. Further details were in a leaked draft of the executive obtained earlier by POLITICO.
The White House released a top-level summary of the order’s main points ahead of the signing ceremony on Monday. Further details were inIn the absence of any action from Congress in the near future, the order will likely define Washington’s interactions with a largely unregulated sector of the American tech industry.The ambitious order delves into technical detail on the federal government’s plans on AI.
Castro, of the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, said the order “has a lot of details that still need to be filled in.’'According to a draft order seen by POLITICO, the order directs each federal agency to create the position of a chief AI officer, with a memo from the Office of Budget Management to follow, outlining each federal AI officer’s responsibilities.
The order’s focus on social and fairness issues drew political fire from the right, even before it was formally issued. Sen., the ranking member of the Senate Commerce Committee, said he had seen a draft and panned the new order’s terms as “barriers to innovation disguised as safety measures.” The order directs federal agencies to set guidelines on how they collect, use and share personal information obtained from data brokers. It also encourages agencies to adopt stronger privacy protections.