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Joe Biden's Surprising Focus on the Future
President Joe Biden is looking towards the future
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JOE BIDEN IS OUR OLDEST PRESIDENT, as everyone keeps saying, but he’s also—despite and possibly because of his age—an unusually forward-looking president.
I’ve had this thought often throughout this administration, and it struck me again when word leaked that Biden would be signing a sweeping executive order this week on artificial intelligence. It’s not the first one, but based on a draft order it obtained, Politico deemed it “the most significant single effort to impose national order on a technology that has shocked many people with its rapid growth.”
Like so much else Biden has prioritized, the AI order is geared toward a better, safer, more livable world for today’s children and generations to come. It’s the latest in a series of Biden administration moves to meet U.S. challenges that former President Donald Trump largely ignored, failed at, or made worse......
BIDEN’S FUTURE FOCUS is evident as well in his concern for U.S. democracy and democracy abroad, and his alarm at the prospect of an aggressively resurgent Russia invading one sovereign nation after another if it is not stopped in Ukraine. “I think we’re putting the world together in a way that is going to make things significantly . . . more secure for people,” Biden told CNN’s Fareed Zakaria in July. “Whether it is the Far East, whether it is NATO, whether it is Europe, whether it is what is going on in Africa, I think we have enormous opportunities. And I think I just want to finish the job. And I think we can do that in the next six years.”
I’ve had this thought often throughout this administration, and it struck me again when word leaked that Biden would be signing a sweeping executive order this week on artificial intelligence. It’s not the first one, but based on a draft order it obtained, Politico deemed it “the most significant single effort to impose national order on a technology that has shocked many people with its rapid growth.”
Like so much else Biden has prioritized, the AI order is geared toward a better, safer, more livable world for today’s children and generations to come. It’s the latest in a series of Biden administration moves to meet U.S. challenges that former President Donald Trump largely ignored, failed at, or made worse......
BIDEN’S FUTURE FOCUS is evident as well in his concern for U.S. democracy and democracy abroad, and his alarm at the prospect of an aggressively resurgent Russia invading one sovereign nation after another if it is not stopped in Ukraine. “I think we’re putting the world together in a way that is going to make things significantly . . . more secure for people,” Biden told CNN’s Fareed Zakaria in July. “Whether it is the Far East, whether it is NATO, whether it is Europe, whether it is what is going on in Africa, I think we have enormous opportunities. And I think I just want to finish the job. And I think we can do that in the next six years.”