President Joe Biden is expected to sign a memorandum on Thursday detailing how intelligence and national security agencies, including the Department of Defense, should use and deploy guardrails around AI, The New York Times reported. .
The order calls for humans to be “subject to surveillance” of AI tools that could be used as targeting weapons, including granting asylum, tracking someone based on ethnicity or religion, or Prohibits AI from making decisions about classifying people as “known terrorists.” Without human review.
Additionally, the memo calls on intelligence agencies to begin protecting research on AI and AI chips from espionage and theft by foreign adversaries. It could also help the recently established AI Safety Institute test AI tools before they are released to ensure they cannot support terrorist groups or hostile states.
As the New York Times notes, it's unclear how much impact the order will ultimately have, given that most of the deadlines set will expire after Biden leaves office.