President Donald Trump signed an executive order regarding Artificial Intelligence that is looking to strike the “right balance between innovation and security.”
Trump signed the order on June 2, which directs federal agencies to test AI software for safety. This would involve voluntary collaboration with the “AI industry and operators of critical infrastructure.” The federal government would look scan for software vulnerabilities, discover and validate such vulnerabilities, and coordinates and prioritizes remediation and distribution of vulnerability patches, according to the executive order.
“Advanced AI capabilities make our Nation stronger but also introduce new national security considerations that require coordinated action across executive departments and agencies (agencies), and components,” the order reads.
Federal agencies, including The NSA and Department of War, will also design a framework where AI developers would be able to engage with and provide access of models to the government — subject to “appropriate” confidentiality, cybersecurity, insider-risk, and intellectual-property protection, use, and nondisclosure requirements, for a period of up to 30 days before they plan to release the models.
The executive order comes more than a week after Trump canceled the release of another version of the order with stricter requirements, saying it could have hurt American competitiveness, reported Axios.
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