MIT Technology Review July 23, 2024
On year on from the White House’s voluntary commitments on AI.
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Yesterday, on July 21, President Joe Biden announced he is stepping down from the race against Donald Trump in the US presidential election.
But AI nerds may remember that exactly a year ago, on July 21, 2023, Biden was posing with seven top tech executives at the White House. He’d just negotiated a deal where they agreed to eight of the most prescriptive rules targeted at the AI sector at that time. A lot can change in a year!
The voluntary commitments were hailed...