This week was perhaps the busiest in its efforts to mitigate the risks associated with artificial intelligence. Wednesday saw the first international AI Safety Summit held in London. Days earlier, U.S. President Joe Biden issued an Executive Order on the Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence.
The executive order is a clear step forward from the White House’s Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights, released in October 2022, which had mostly focused on AI-related individual-level harms. With its Oct. 30 order, the White House broadened its scope, taking a sectoral approach to mitigating AI-induced risks, and tasked both Congress and the executive branch with passing new legislation, implementing new task forces and groups, and issuing new requirements.
