Biden seeks to regulate AI through executive order

President Biden pledges to addresses concerns about AI with an executive order.

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00:00 One thing is clear.

00:03 To realize the promise of AI and avoid the risk, we need to govern this technology.

00:08 There's no other way around it, in my view.

00:12 It must be governed.

00:13 I'm about to sign an executive order, an executive order that is the most significant

00:17 action any government anywhere in the world has ever taken on AI safety, security, and

00:23 trust.

00:24 This order builds on the critical steps we've already taken to ensuring the AI Bill of Rights

00:30 to bring together leading AI companies who agreed to voluntarily make certain commitments

00:39 to make sure AI is safe and a system is secure.

00:43 With today's executive order I'll soon be signing, I'm determined to do everything in

00:47 my power to promote and demand responsible innovation.

00:51 There's no greater change I can think of in my life than AI presents as a potential.

00:58 Exploring the universe, fighting climate change, ending cancer as we know it, and so much more.

01:05 As artificial intelligence expands the boundary of human possibility and tests the bounds

01:11 of human understanding, this landmark executive order is a testament to what we stand for.

01:18 Safety, security, trust, openness.

01:21 (upbeat music)