Biden executive order imposes new rules for AI. Here's what they are.
Move aims to protect against AI use for devastating weapons or cyberattacks. President Joe Biden issued a wide-ranging executive order on Monday that aims to safeguard against threats posed by artificial intelligence, ensuring that bad actors do not use the technology to develop devastating weapons or mount supercharged cyberattacks. The move stakes out a role for the federal government in a nearly half-trillion-dollar industry at the center of fierce competition between some of the nation's largest companies, including Google and Amazon. The Biden administration also calls on Congress to pass data privacy legislation, an achievement that has eluded lawmakers for years despite multiple attempts. The executive order exerts oversight over safety tests that companies use to evaluate conversation bots such as ChatGPT and introduces industry standards like watermarks for identifying AI-fueled products, among other regulations. The batch of reforms amounts to "the strongest set of a...