ChatGPT Risks Divide Biden Administration Over EU's AI Rules

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Source: Bloomberg

Biden administration officials are divided over how aggressively new artificial intelligence tools should be regulated — and their differences are playing out this week in Sweden.

Some White House and Commerce Department officials support the strong measures proposed by the European Union for AI products such as ChatGPT and Dall-E, people involved in the discussions said. Meanwhile, US national security officials and some in the State Department say aggressively regulating this nascent technology will put the nation at a competitive disadvantage, according to the people, who asked not to be identified because the information isn’t public.

This dissonance has left the US without a coherent response during this week’s US-EU Trade and Technology Council gathering in Sweden to the EU’s plan to subject generative AI to additional rules. The proposal would force developers of artificial intelligence tools to comply with a host of strong regulations, such as requiring them to document any copyrighted material used to train their products and more closely track how that information is used.

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How the EU decides to regulate AI arguably matters more than the debate in Washington. With Congress unlikely to pass binding rules for AI, the European bloc will be the first to dictate how tech giants including Microsoft Corp. and Google owner Alphabet Inc. develop the foundation models that underpin the next frontier of artificial intelligence.

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Read more: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-05-31/biden-administration-split-over-policy-on-openai-as-eu-pushes-new-rules

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Much more at the links.

There used to be more consensus between the US and the EU, but "the release of ChatGPT made broader risks more apparent."

No kidding.

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1. "requiring them to document any copyrighted material"

Almost all material is copyrighted. If the EU goes ahead with this - then Open AI / Microsoft / Google should pull the plug. Having first access to AI would be a colossal advantage to the United States.

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2. If there are regulations, then those should focus on where it's used

Such as ensuring that in cases where it is used, there has to be human in the loop. It should also be disclosed when any sort of AI system was used to help make a decision. The system should also be able to explain how it formed whatever output it came up with. This data should all be saved and stored for a long period of time in case issues arise.

At least that make sense in my simplistic understanding of things.