Biden’s Executive Order on AI Is a Good Start, Experts Say, but Not Enough

The U.S. now has its farthest-reaching official policy on artificial intelligence to date. President Joe Biden signed an executive order this week that urges new federal standards for AI safety, security and trustworthiness and addresses many other facets of AI risk and development. The broad order, nearly 20,000 words long, uses the term “artificial intelligence” to refer to automated predictive, perceptive or generative software that can mimic certain human abilities. The White House action came just two days before the start of an international summit on AI safety organized and…