![]() There is growing concern that only the largest companies like Google, Amazon and Microsoft will be able to compete. The draft order instructs every agency under its umbrella to police AI business competition, looking out for “risks arising from concentrated control” and preventing the dominant multi-billion dollar firms from further consolidating power. ![]() It also called on the agency to advance AI technology including through grants, with an emphasis on improving health data, and identifying areas of drug development that could benefit from public-private partnerships. It also directs HHS to consult with relevant agencies to evaluate how AI could discriminate against patients, and then prevent it and create a safety program for detecting errors and tracking incidents that harm an individual. The agency is also directed to craft a strategy to determine whether such technology is sufficiently high-quality in a number of areas, including drug and device safety, research and public health. ![]() The order calls on the Department of Health and Human Services to create a task force to develop a strategic plan within a year on the responsible use of AI, including with respect to generative AI, according to the draft, which was confirmed by a person familiar with the draft. DHS and the Department of Defense are required to put together plans to carry out an “operational pilot program” within six months to test the use of AI technologies in discovering vulnerabilities in U.S. While AI poses a wide array of new cyber risks, the order also addresses its potential benefits. The Treasury Department specifically is required, within 150 days, to submit a public report on ways the banking sector can manage cyber risks involved in the use of AI technologies. The AI mandate would give federal agencies three months to identify the risks of AI use within the sectors they oversee and six months to develop guidelines for how private companies within those industries should incorporate the White House’s new AI Risk Management Framework. To prevent powerful AI models from falling into the hands of foreign adversaries, the order would require companies developing powerful AI models to provide regular reports to the Commerce Department outlining how they plan to protect their technology from espionage or digital subversion and mandate that large cloud services providers like Amazon and Microsoft notify the government each time foreigners rent server space to train large AI models. The order indicates the White House sees the rapid development of advanced cyberweapons as one of the most significant risks posed by artificial intelligence. It includes a mandate for companies to submit reports to the federal government detailing how they train and test so-called “dual-use foundation models,” a category that it defines to include the most powerful of the new AI systems. The executive order would also allow Washington to keep tabs on the private sector development of powerful AI systems. It builds on a “Bill of Rights” issued in late 2022 by the Biden White House, which addressed many of the concerns raised by civil society groups but adds a significant push toward exploring AI’s capabilities as well, including the launch of the pilot public research program known as the National AI Research Resource, or NAIRR. The order will also appoint a White House AI Council to coordinate the federal government’s AI activities, chaired by the White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy and staffed with representatives from every major agency. Most will have between 90 to 240 days to fulfill the requirements of the executive order, in the lead-up to next year’s presidential election. The White House will issue sprawling directives to over a dozen agencies targeting their handling of artificial intelligence systems, according to the 111-page draft. Congress has scrambled to put legislation together to tackle the risks and potential of AI, but Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer cautioned this week that no broad AI bill was likely to be introduced until next year. The order, anticipated for months, represents the most significant single effort to impose national order on a technology that has shocked many people with its rapid growth, most notably the human-like capabilities of the latest and most powerful generative AI models. Biden’s order specifically directs the Federal Trade Commission, for instance, to focus on anti-competitive behavior and consumer harms in the AI industry - a mission that Chair Lina Khan has already publicly embraced. Though the order does not have the force of law and previous White House AI efforts have been criticized for lacking enforcement teeth, the new guidelines will give federal agencies influence in the US market through their buying power and their enforcement tools. The White House did not reply to a request to confirm the draft.
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