Ben Mishkin and Daniel Kilburn discuss the Trump administration’s new approach to artificial intelligence on Transformative AI: Legal Leaps. While AI will remain a priority, Trump officially rescinded Biden’s Executive Order on Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence (Biden EO) just hours after taking office. The Biden EO focused on requiring federal agencies to study the impact of AI on various areas, such as cybersecurity, and issue recommendations for further action.

Ben and Daniel also discuss an executive order issued by Trump, called “Removing Barriers to American Leadership in Artificial Intelligence,” which seeks to “sustain and enhance America’s global AI dominance in order to promote human flourishing, economic competitiveness, and national security” by “revok[ing] certain existing AI policies and directives that act as barriers to American AI innovation.” The fate of the Biden administration’s final two actions on AI is yet to be determined, but Trump’s initial actions have already marked a significant shift in the federal outlook on artificial intelligence.

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