Two days after President Joe Biden signed a radical executive decree on artificial intelligence last year, vice-president Kamala Harris brought the wobbly document to an AI world summit, telling an international audience which distinguished the United States in its approach to AI security.
In an event intended to approach the potential disasters posed by Futurist forms of AI, Harris made waves by pivoting current concerns – and the need to quickly codify protections without stifling innovation.
“When a senior is launched his health plan because of a defective IA algorithm, isn’t that existential for him?” Harris told a crowd in London last November. “When a woman is threatened by an abusive partner with explicit photographs Deepfake, isn’t that existential for her?”
Now she presents herself for the president and her chief opponent, former president Donald Trump, said that he wanted to “cancel” Biden’s order. Trump’s running mate, the Senator of Ohio, JD Vance, also brings his own opinions on AI, which are influenced by his links with certain figures of Silicon Valley pushing to limit the regulations of AI.
The growing visibility of AI in everyday life has made it a subject of popular discussion, but has not yet raised it to a major concern for American voters. But this could be the first presidential election where candidates create competing visions on how to guide American leadership on rapid development technology.
Here are the candidates’ files on AI:
Trump’s approach
Biden signed his decree of last AI last October 30, and shortly after Trump reported on the campaign track that if he was re -elected, he would remove it. His commitment was stored on the platform of the National Republican Convention for this month.
“We will repeal the dangerous executive order of Joe Biden who hinders the innovation of AI and imposes radical left-wing ideas in the development of this technology,” said the Trump platform. “In its place, the Republicans support the development of AI anchored in freedom of expression and human development.”
The Trump campaign did not respond to requests for more details.
Trump did not spend much time talking about AI during his four years as president, but in 2019, he became the first to sign a decree on AI. He ordered federal agencies to prioritize research and development in the field.
Before that, technology experts were pushing the Trump’s White House for a stronger AI strategy to correspond to what other countries were pursuing. In 2017, shortly before Google quietly introduced a research breakthrough helping to define the basics of technology now known as the IA generative “it is not even on my radar screen.”
This prospect changed later, with Trump’s best technological advisor by telling the heads of business in 2018 that the use of employment fueled by AI is “inevitable” and that “we cannot remain inactive, hoping that The market will eventually settle “. The 2019 ordinance called for federal agencies to “protect civil freedoms, privacy and American values” in the application of AI technologies and to help workers acquire relevant skills.
Trump also in the decreasing weeks of his administration signed an executive decree promoting the use of an AI “trustworthy” in the federal government. These policies were carried out in the Biden administration.
Harris approach
The beginnings of Chatgpt almost halfway from Biden’s presidential mandate prevented politicians from ignoring AI. In a few months, Harris summoned the leaders of Google, Microsoft and other technology companies at the White House, a first step down of a path that led the developers to accept voluntary commitments to guarantee that their technology will not put not the rights and security of people in danger.
Then, the order of the Biden AI, which used national security powers of the Korean War era, to examine high -risk commercial AI systems, but mainly aimed to protect use through the government of technology and to establish standards that could promote commercial adoption. Unlike the European Union, however, the United States still has no general rules on AI – something that would force the congress to pass.
Harris has already brought to the White House an in -depth understanding of Silicon Valley, having grown up and worked in the San Francisco Bay region and was then Attorney General of California, where she forged relations with certain leaders of technology technology said that Alondra Nelson, former director of the White House technological science and policies.
Even before Chatgpt, Nelson directed the efforts of the White House to write a plan for a “Declaration of Rights” of the AI to guard against the potential damage to technology. But it was the speech of the World Summit on the Security of AI in London where Harris gathered all these sons and “articulated in the world what the strategy of the American AI was,” said Nelson.
Harris said that she and Biden “rejected the false choice that suggests that we can protect the innovation of the public or to advance”. And while recognizing the need to consider existential threats to humanity, Harris stressed “the whole spectrum of the risk of AI”.
“She has somehow opened the opening of the conversation on the potential AI risks and damage,” said Nelson.
VANCE AND THE VCS
The choice of Trump of the old venture capital vance as a running mate added a new element to the differences between the campaigns. The same is true for the new trumping of a group of AI-focused technological leaders, including Elon Musk and the venture capital Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz.
Vance has recognized certain harmful requests from AI, but said during a hearing in the July Senate that he worried this concern justified “certain preventive surreting attempts that would frankly strengthen the technological holders that we already have”.
Andreessen, who sits on the meta-platform board of directors, criticized a provision of the order of Biden which requires a meticulous examination of the most powerful and risky AI systems if they can perform a number of mathematical calculations per second.
On a podcast with Horowitz trading partner explaining their support for Trump, Andreessen said he was concerned about “the idea that we will deliberately isolate ourselves through expensive regulations while the rest of the world lights up, and while that China lights up upwards. “
Horowitz read the RNC call aloud to repeal Biden’s order, saying “it seems to be a good plan for me” and noting that he and Andreessen had discussed proposals with Trump during a dinner.
Trump met another group of VCS in a video podcast in June, sharing their opinion according to which the management of AI will require huge amounts of electricity – a prospect he shared on the RNC scene where he declared That it would “twice the electricity available now in our country.” It was its only mention of AI in the 92 -minute speech.
Are they so different on AI?
Much is still unknown, in particular to what extent Harris or the Trump-Vance ticket will take into account the opinions of their competing wings for support from Silicon Valley.
While rhetorical differences are displayed, “there are a lot of similarities” between how Trump and Biden administrations have addressed AI policy, said Aaron Cooper, Vice-President of World Policy for BSA The Software Alliance, which pleads for software companies, including Microsoft.
Voters have not yet heard a lot of details about how a Harris or Second Trump administration would change this.
“What we will continue to see as the technology develops and that new problems arise, no matter who is in the White House, they will examine how we can release the most good from AI while reducing The most harm, “said Cooper. “It seems obvious, but it is not an easy calculation.”