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It turns out that former President Barack Obama had a heavy hand in
crafting current President Joe Biden's AI agenda.


Per NBC, aides for both Biden and Obama say that AI keeps both the
current and former president "up at night," and by Biden's reported
request, the current president's one-time boss is said to have spent
the last five months "quietly" meeting with White House officials,
convening Zoom conferences with various top aides and speaking with
leaders in the tech world.

Obama "helped really set the frame of mind that companies can
innovate while also being responsible," White House Chief of Staff
Jeff Zients told NBC, "and that companies need to be accountable."

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It's a notable contribution from Obama, considering his complicated
tech legacy.

The former president, who helmed the nation during the onset of
social media and the digital world's Web2 transformation, embraced
tech in his presidential campaigns, as well as during his eight-year
tenure in the Oval Office. But while some laud him as a driver of
innovation who appreciated tech as a means of expediting progress,
he's also garnered wide criticism for his perceived failure to
regulate Silicon Valley and the giants within it at a time when
these companies weren't quite so powerful and regulation might have
been more possible.

Indeed, Obama touched on that regulatory failure this week in a
Medium post, published after Biden's executive order was issued.

"When social media was on the rise, most decisions were made by a
small group of people with almost no oversight," reads the
statement. "Those people created platforms that helped us connect in
new and exciting ways, but they also failed to anticipate the harm
their tools could do. By the time it became clear, much of the
damage had already been done."

"We can't make the same mistake again," the noted Medium author
added. "The stakes are too high."

That's all fair. But again, it's important to remember that the
Biden administration's order is mostly a promised framework for
addressing AI and its implications, offering little in the way of
firm regulation or timelines for the execution of its various
promises. Like Zients told NBC, accountability is important — for AI companies, yes, but for the government, too.

https://futurism.com/the-byte/obama-ai-biden

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