Biden Admin Releases Sweeping Set Of Actions To Protect AI Misuse For Nuclear, Other Risks

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In an unprecedented move, the White House released a new memorandum focused on increasing cooperation between the US national security establishment and the AI industry. Multiple administrations, from the Trump to the Biden Administration, have been focused on the growing threat to US national security interests, particularly threats from hostile non state actors seeking to gain an undue advantage in high tech industries such as semiconductor fabrication by seeking access to proprietary information or technology.

Today’s announcement extends the White House’s efforts to secure American artificial intelligence against intelligence operations from hostile actors by increasing information sharing between the intelligence sector and the AI industry.

US Designates AI As Top Tier Intelligence Priority In Sweeping White House Memorandum

The latest memorandum from the White House covers policy objectives to enhance US AI leadership through talent acquisition, leverage AI to protect American national security and develop a global AI use policy. Within these, the framework explicitly instructs government agencies to ensure that the AI industry can access relevant counterintelligence information to help protect against hostile state and nonstate actors.

It also aims to fortify against risks “stemming from deliberate misuse and accidents,” by directing the Commerce Department to work through the AI Safety…