“Fostering innovation but above all defending against an uncontrolled evolution of Artificial Intelligence” are the objectives that led the White House to implement ad hoc investments and measures. The Biden administration, with this new regulation, intends to support a balanced approach regarding the risks and opportunities of AI. It is now understood that, in addition to opportunities, great dangers can arise from tools such as chatbots and the ability of AI to manipulate and falsify images.

The White House has been asked by many to check Artificial Intelligence since OpenAI it made the app available to the public and people searched for information, for any daily need, from school to work. The big technology companies, which have felt this almost unstoppable need for information, have put chatbots in their products, thus making AI a new consumer product.

Artificial Intelligence, cybercrime has also grown

In parallel, cybercrime has grown, with false images and news generated by Artificial Intelligence on the Internet. The risk appeared to everyone, Biden government in the lead, serious and gigantic especially in polarized and fought political campaigns.​​The National Science Foundation (NSF), a government agency, has thus planned a further investment of 140 million dollars to create seven new National Institutes of Research on AI. There will thus be 25 national AI research institutes in the country with $500 million in funding to “support responsible innovation”.

Looking at the figures put on the field, it is impressive to compare them to the investments of Big Tech. Just to give an example Microsoft has invested $10 billion in OpenAi alone, the developer of ChatGPT. US Vice President Kamala Harris met with Google, Microsoft, OpenAI and Anthropic, a start-up specializing in AI, to discuss the possibilities and challenges presented by this new technological reality. The vice president underlined that “the private sector has the ethical, moral and legal responsibility to guarantee the safety of its products. And all businesses must follow applicable laws to protect the American people. We await responses shortly.”

Artificial Intelligence, between risks and opportunities

To take advantage of AI, you need to start by lowering its risks. With this assumption, the White House has fielded the Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights, an important roadmap with a number of defenses. Together with “AI Risk Management Framework”, it has provided the companies, policy makers and people who generate these technologies with a modus operandi to mitigate risk. Among the objectives of the new government measures: to exploit the opportunities of AI and above all to reduce risks, primarily the robotization of jobs, with the destruction of jobs.

The Government has asked companies to make sure that the products they market are safe. How to do it, it is still not very clear because AI is something that evolves, probably more than the knowledge of business experts. The fact is that the United States is at a key decision point on the subject of AI. THEThe great risk is that Big Tech, giants like Facebook and Google, without regulation and technologically ahead of the fuzziness of Governments, will plunge into the legislative vacuum and continue to strengthen their economic and social power.