Biden Unveils Major AI Regulation Policy

US President Joe Biden, in the most ambitious set of actions taken by any government in the world on artificial intelligence (AI), has invoked the Defense Production Act to instruct all companies developing AI models with implications for national security, health, and economic security to notify the federal government and share results of red team safety tests to ensure it is safe and secure.

- Prashant Jha

Biden has also taken a range of other actions in an executive order, including a major immigration reform push to attract and retain Al talent in America, a move that will have implications for Indian scientists, designers, engineers, coders and others with domain knowledge.

The executive order, signed on Monday, instructs relevant agencies, with a specified timeframe, to develop standards, tools and tests to ensure AI models are safe and secure.

It also calls for work to be done on new standards for biological synthesis screening to protect against the risk of the use of AI to engineer dangerous biological material; develop guidance for content authentication and clear watermarking to label AI-generated content; establish an advanced cybersecurity programme to make software and networks more secure; and develop a national security memorandum to ensure that the US military and intelligence community uses AI "safely, ethically and effectively".

The orders will likely have a global implication on the AI industry since all companies with the most advanced models -OpenAI, Google and IBMare headquartered under American jurisdiction.