Early Responses to Proposed AI Regulation

By Michael Borella — As a follow up to last week’s article about the Biden executive order on artificial intelligence (AI), this is a brief overview of one of its provisions that has proven to be controversial — namely, the additional scrutiny that the government plans for AI models and computing clusters over a certain size. The order states that the Secretary of Commerce shall require that entities acquiring, developing, training, or using such models must report their activities to the government, including results of red-team testing intended to discover flaws and vulnerabilities of these systems. The current size thresholds…