What Biden’s AI Executive Order Means

The AI world (and my inbox) was rocked yesterday by President Joe Biden’s long-awaited AI executive order, which covered a wide range of issues, from the use of AI in education to watermarking AI-generated content. (For a summary, check out my colleague Amir Efrati's piece here.)

Now that we’ve had 24 hours to marinate on the order, here are some thoughts from myself and the AI execs I chatted with. Overall, executives seemed pleasantly surprised with the new directive (the most common response I received was, “It could have been worse!”). 

A number were glad that the executive order focused more on safety testing rather than overly-prohibitive restrictions like caps on compute, bans on open-source models or model development licenses.