Welcome back everybody. The White House rolling out a sweeping executive order today aiming

to monitor and regulate the risks of artificial intelligence while also harnessing its potential.

This marking the latest effort to address the rapidly evolving technology that has sparked concern among world leaders.

Here to discuss is Neely Patel, editor-in-chief at The Verge, and James Pethacukus Economic Policy

analyst at the American Enterprise Institute.

They're both C and B.C. contributors by the way and

Aeman Javers, you know him.

He's going to give us the latest from DC.

Aeman, why don't I kick it off with you?

What did this executive order say?

Well, Tyler, it's kind of a kitchen sink executive order

from the Biden administration today.

They're addressing a whole host of things

and bringing in all sorts of elements of national power here, so to speak. They're using

the Defense Production Act here in order to compel companies that are engaging in large-scale AI to share with

them their safety testing results that is they'll have to come to the US government

and tell them how these things are testing they're also going to invoke some standards and rulemaking

procedures that are also concerned about things like discrimination in AI and

trying to make sure that there are federal guidelines around making sure that discrimination is not built into

AI accidentally so to speak.

So it's a whole range of things here and at the same time trying not to sort of squash innovation

and the development of this new technology

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