Cybersecurity Is a Central Pillar of Biden's AI Executive Order

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Invoking the Korean War-era Defense Production Act, the Biden administration will issue an executive order to invoke emergency federal powers to rein in the risks of artificial intelligence.

The order would compel major AI companies to notify the government when developing any system that poses a “serious risk to national security, national economic security or national public health and safety,” according to a fact sheet issued by the White House.

A central pillar of the order will be an effort to manage such national security risks as cybersecurity threats. It addresses fears that AI might fuel a global arms race of more powerful cyber weapons and unleash an avalanche of online disinformation, such as …