As part of a new executive order aimed at controlling AI risks, the Biden administration plans to use federal emergency powers. AI is a new technology that has both powerful functions and enormous potential for destruction.
According to a statement from the White House, US President Biden signed an order on Monday to use the Defense Production Act from the Korean War era to force large AI companies to notify the government when developing any system that poses a serious risk to national security, national economic security, or national public health and safety.
This order aims to fill the global regulatory vacuum for rapidly developing AI technology. It aims to reduce risks from privacy to unemployment, and emphasizes efforts to address the sometimes slow response of Congress and other government agencies to this new technology.