Sarah Myers West, the managing director of the AI Now Institute, a nonprofit group focused on the technology’s effects on society, commended Biden for including social and ethical concerns in the order.
“It’s great to see the White House set the tone on the issues that matter most to the public: labor, civil rights, protecting privacy, promoting competition,” Myers West said by text message. “This underscores you can’t deal with the future risks of AI without adequately dealing with the present.”
“The key looking forward will be to ensure strong enforcement as companies attempt to set a self-regulatory tone: industry cannot be left to lead the conversation on how to adequately address the effects of AI on the broader public,” she said.
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