President Joe Biden’s executive order on artificial intelligence set off an initial flurry of activity as states positioned themselves to take advantage of the yet-unexplored benefits the technology could offer. But now, some are shining a light on what they see as AI’s dark side and its potential for abuse.
Earlier this month, Utah Attorney General Sean Reyes and 19 other Republican state AGs sent a letter to Secretary Gina Raimondo in response to the Commerce Department’s request for information on developing guidelines to enable deployment of safe, secure and trustworthy systems. The AGs objected primarily to Biden’s AI executive order, which they said was the basis for the RFI saying it “moves in the wrong direction.”
The AGs called the executive order an effort to “centralize governmental control over an emerging technology being developed by the private sector.” The executive order, they wrote, “opens the door to using the federal government’s control over AI for political ends, such as censoring responses in the name of combatting ‘disinformation.’”
They also urged Raimondo “not to attempt to centralize control over AI being developed in the U.S. or otherwise create barriers to entry in this critical and growing sector of our economy.”
The letter argued that Biden does not have the authority to mandate testing and reporting requirements on companies developing AI systems and said that efforts to ensure AI is not used for “disinformation” could be subject to political bias from those looking to stifle speech. It also said that Biden was i ..
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