Politico July 26, 2024
By Steven Overly

With help from Derek Robertson

Hello, and welcome to today’s edition of the Future in Five Questions. Steven interviewed Elizabeth Kelly, the director of the U.S. AI Safety Institute, an agency the Commerce Department set up roughly six months ago to help implement President Joe Biden’s executive order on artificial intelligence. She discussed why safety is critical to AI’s future and where existing technologies fall short, as well as how global governments are “making sure that AI works for humans.” You can hear more from Kelly on today’s episode of the POLITICO Tech podcast. This conversation has been edited and condensed for clarity:

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