Framework includes both innovation and oversight policies
On Wednesday, the Trump Administration released its AI Action Plan, following up on the President’s executive order earlier this year with a more detailed list of policy proposals for AI innovation and governance. The Action Plan includes a number of proposals shared by ARI with the Administration, including strengthening export controls, investing in biosecurity, protecting the public from synthetic media, accelerating workforce adaptation, creating federal capacity for AI incident response, research on AI interpretability and control, and evaluating models for national security risks.
The AI Action Plan also includes a directive for federal agencies to disallow AI-related federal funding for states with AI regulations – a moratorium-style proposal that ARI has advocated against without adequate federal AI safeguards.
“Ultimately, this action plan is about increasing oversight of AI systems while maintaining a hands-off approach to hard and fast regulations,” said ARI President Brad Carson. “On biosecurity, AI interpretability, evaluations, and incident response, this plan creates an opportunity for us to better understand what’s happening inside the black box of AI and the big risks frontier models create for the public. At the same time, the plan’s targeting of state-passed AI safeguards is cause for concern. For America to lead on AI, we have to build public trust in these systems, and safeguards are essential to that public confidence.”
On Thursday, ARI will host an expert panel Decoding the AI Action Plan with ARI President Brad Carson, Anthropic CEO Jack Clark, Brooking’s Elham Tabassi, FAI’s Samuel Hammond, and Former DHS and NSA official Stewart Baker. RSVP here.