President Biden To Hold Meeting On Artificial Intelligence Regulation

President Biden is shortly due to meet business leaders and experts in artificial intelligence as the administration hones in on a strategy for regulating the technology.

• Livestream of the meeting: LINK
• A White House official said today’s meeting will include experts and researchers discussing the challenges posed by AI... the harm from possible bias, and the potential benefits it holds...
• White House Press Secretary Karine jean-Pierre told reporters yesterday: “We remain committed to fostering responsible AI to benefit society,” and “working to mitigate the risk.”
• Bloomberg: “Ahead of the meeting, major AI companies, including Microsoft and Alphabet’s Google, committed to participating in the first independent public evaluation of their systems. But the administration is also seeking a broader regulatory push, with the Commerce Department saying earlier this year that it was considering rules that could require AI models to go through a certification process before release.”
• Foreign Policy today drew comparison between, "the current race for supremacy in AI to the nuclear race several decades ago."
• FP: "The great scramble for AI is having a profound impact on global power. In fact, it has for a while. Semiconductors are already shaping wars, cyberattacks, alliances, and more."