Bill Wright on the AI Executive Order
The Lawfare Podcast
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🗓️ 6 December 2023
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
A little over a month ago, President Biden issued a sweeping executive order on artificial intelligence (AI) covering a broad set of AI issues, such as privacy, transparency, the development of biological weapons, and many more. The order hands out expansive directives to several U.S. government agencies and private industry, which the Biden administration hopes will help the U.S. lead the globe in AI development in a safe and sustainable manner.
Lawfare Research Fellow Matt Gluck sat down with Bill Wright, Global Head of Government Affairs at Elastic—a leading search company—to discuss, from the perspective of an industry insider, what the executive order means for tech companies that rely on AI and the relationship between tech companies and the U.S. government. Is collaboration among companies in the competitive AI space possible? Which aspects of the order could help smaller companies keep up? Will the order let companies dictate their processes for complying with the order’s broad objectives?
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| 0:53.0 | Overall, AI is going to really delivery mechanisms for instance. |
| 1:07.0 | Overall AI is going to really lower the barrier so that those less sophisticated actors can potentially develop these types of weapons. |
| 1:12.3 | So you know once So once that was solely the province of say your state-run lab, |
| 1:18.5 | you know, can now have non-state actors trying for it. |
| 1:23.0 | So the EO responds to this by tasking some key departments to evaluate and report on AI's capabilities in this area, |
| 1:33.3 | aiming to both understand and mitigate these threats. |
| 1:36.5 | This is really putting a flag in the ground |
| 1:39.7 | and maybe trying to find out some more information later. |
| 1:44.1 | I'm Matt Gluck, research fellow at Law Fair, |
| 1:46.8 | and this is the Law Fair Podcast, December 6th, 2023. |
| 1:51.0 | A little over a month ago, President Biden issued a sweeping executive order on |
| 1:55.1 | artificial intelligence covering a broad set of AI issues such as privacy, transparency, |
| 2:01.4 | the development of biological weapons, and many more. |
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