While artificial intelligence is starting to affect more aspects of society, the White House takes action to take advantage of technology while protecting the security of the country.
Thursday, President Joe Biden issuing The first national security memorandum of the country on AI to ensure that the United States retains its leadership in technology and is able to support its growth with semiconductors and renewable energies manufactured at national level.
“The innovation that occurred, in particular in this current wave of artificial intelligence of the border, was really motivated by the private sector. And it is essential that we continue both to promote this leadership, but we make sure that the government, and in particular with this national security memorandum, assured us that our national security agencies adopt these technologies so as to line up On our values, ”said a senior administration official on Wednesday during a briefing on the memorandum.
“The inability to take advantage of this leadership and adopt this technology that we worry could put us in danger of a strategic surprise of our rivals, like China,” added the manager.
The official said that AI had significant national security applications, especially for cybersecurity, counterintelligence, logistics and activities supporting military operations.
“Because countries like China recognize similar opportunities to modernize and revolutionize their own military and intelligence capacities using artificial intelligence, it is particularly imperative that we accelerate the adoption and use of our safety community national abilities of advanced AI to maintain our competitive advantage ”, the official said.
Several laws adopted during the Biden-Harris administration will allow the United States to maintain its advance in space forged by companies such as Openai, Anthropic, Google and IBM, the national security councilor Lael Brainard said Thursday in a statement on the memorandum. The chips and science act will invest nearly $ 53 billion in the manufacture, research and development and training of workforce and bipartite labor, while the Bipartite on Infrastructure and the Infrastructure Act Inflation reduction earn billions of dollars in investments to increase clean energy production to supply it.
The new NSM is the direct result of the President’s decree on an artificial, safe and trustworthy artificial intelligence from October 2023, which forced federal agencies to develop a government approach to help guide development safe and responsible use of technology.
The NSM has been developed so that the United States can lead the global development of a safe, safe and trustworthy AI and establish a path for international technology governance. A companion document called the IA governance framework and risk management for national security informs agencies how they can and cannot use AI.