There's the story that I came across this week about President Biden watching a movie at Camp David.

It was Mission Impossible dead reckoning part one.

We are at this moment the state of the art of war.

The most fearsome killing machine ever devised by man.

In the movie's opening scenes, the crew of a Russian submarine is duped into firing a torpedo at themselves by an artificial intelligence system called the entity.

Captain, our own torpedo is not responding. It's coming right at us.

Our torpedo's homeoming rage 400 meters!

Well, come on, now we're whip.

Our torpedoes still closing, rage 200 meters!

Emergency blood all men's ballastans. Sound the commission al- The White House told a reporter that that experience, watching that movie made President Biden even more concerned about AI

something he issued an executive order about this week.

If that is what inspired this executive order,

that would be an amazing story. though I knew know the real story and

that was definitely not it.

That's Cecilia Kong who covers technology and policy for the New York Times.

What is the real story?

Well, the real story is that once Chat GPT

was released last November, the White House woke up

as well as the rest of the world to really the power of large

language models and generative AI and AI in general became sort of a panic button that everybody

you know pressed at the same time and so across the

White House Jeff Sines who's the chief of staff told every essentially senior

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