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US: President Biden Signs 'Landmark' National Security Memoradum On AI

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US President Joe Biden has signed a National Security Memorandum (NSM) that would direct the federal government to ensure that the United States leads the world in Artificial Intelligence while safeguarding against potential threats the technology poses to national security.

  • The White House said in a fact sheet: “The NSM’s fundamental premise is that advances at the frontier of AI will have significant implications for national security and foreign policy in the near future...”
  • Senior US administration officials told reporters in a background briefing that agencies will be barred from using AI in certain ways, such as “removing a human in the loop for actions critical to informing and executing decisions by the president to initiate or terminate nuclear weapons deployment.”
  • White House National Economic Advisor Lael Brainard said in a statement: “…there are implications for economic policy. [The NSM] establishes that retaining US leadership in the most advanced AI models will be vital for our national security in coming years. The US lead today on the most advanced AI models reflects several important US economic strengths: our innovative private sector, the ability to develop and source world class talent, strengths in advanced semiconductor design, dynamic capital allocation, and abundant compute power.”
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US President Joe Biden has signed a National Security Memorandum (NSM) that would direct the federal government to ensure that the United States leads the world in Artificial Intelligence while safeguarding against potential threats the technology poses to national security.

  • The White House said in a fact sheet: “The NSM’s fundamental premise is that advances at the frontier of AI will have significant implications for national security and foreign policy in the near future...”
  • Senior US administration officials told reporters in a background briefing that agencies will be barred from using AI in certain ways, such as “removing a human in the loop for actions critical to informing and executing decisions by the president to initiate or terminate nuclear weapons deployment.”
  • White House National Economic Advisor Lael Brainard said in a statement: “…there are implications for economic policy. [The NSM] establishes that retaining US leadership in the most advanced AI models will be vital for our national security in coming years. The US lead today on the most advanced AI models reflects several important US economic strengths: our innovative private sector, the ability to develop and source world class talent, strengths in advanced semiconductor design, dynamic capital allocation, and abundant compute power.”