Hey everyone. I'm Kimberly Adams. Welcome back to Make Me Smart, where we make today make

sense. I'm Kyle Risdell Thursday to November is where we have landed.

You know it's wild to think that this time next year it's gonna be election. Oh my God, oh my God, I can't even believe you're going there.

Holy cow. I can't help it. This is where my brain lives like unfortunately way too much of the time.

But today in the present right now we are going to actually focus on this week and

listen back to some big news stories of the week via audio clips. We got a couple

lined up for for you today. The first one comes from a story that I did earlier this week when President

Biden rolled out his executive order on artificial intelligence and I interviewed Meredith

Broussard who's a data journalism professor at NYU and just put out a new book on artificial intelligence and here's what she had to say.

So we're at a really interesting point with tech regulation because people have imagined for a long time that

keeping themselves safe from big tech was their individual responsibility.

But tech is so ubiquitous now that individual effort is no longer enough.

We really need policy level interventions.

You know, there's so many similarities between this and climate change where for so long the narrative has been recycle, reduce your own waste and do

all these different things to fix the problem that is a systemic issue.

And with AI, that is sort of what this executive order is arguing that it plans to do,

you know, that they're planning to take this whole of government approach to trying to kind of catch up with AI by, you know, adding

some additional regulations onto companies which they will inevitably get sued

over, but as I said, you know in the story that I did, I think it's super interesting that they're really going after government contracting as well and saying that they're going to be adding some guidelines when it comes to government contracting, which is, you you know hundreds of billions of dollars every year

which is going to make a big difference.

I also do wonder just on that whole of government thing we don't quite have a whole of

government we have the executive branch which is large and sprawling and has lots of agencies

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