White House Releases Executive Order on Artificial Intelligence
Published October 31, 2023
President Biden signed an executive order that establishes new standards for artificial intelligence (AI) safety and security, privacy protections, advances equity and civil rights, protects consumers, supports workers, promotes innovation and competition, works with international partners, and develops guidance for federal agencies' use and procurement of AI.
The order includes:
- Requiring some AI companies to share safety test results with the federal government, directing the Commerce Department to create guidance for AI watermarking, and creating a cybersecurity program that can make AI tools that help identify flaws in critical software;
- Creating guidelines that agencies can use to evaluate privacy techniques used in AI;
- Providing guidance to landlords and federal contractors to help avoid AI algorithms furthering discrimination, and creating best practices on the appropriate role of AI in the justice system, including when it’s used in sentencing, risk assessments and crime forecasting;
- Directing the Department of Health and Human Services to create a program to evaluate potentially harmful AI-related health-care practices and creating resources on how educators can responsibly use AI tools;
- Producing a report on the potential labor market implications of AI and developing principles and best practices to mitigate the harms and maximize the benefits of AI for workers by addressing job displacement; labor standards; workplace equity, health, and safety; and data collection;
- Expanding grants for AI research in areas such as climate change and modernizing the criteria for highly skilled immigrant workers with key expertise to stay in the U.S.;
- Implementing AI standards around the world; and
- Speeding up the government’s hiring of workers skilled in the field.