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White House memo calls for agencies to protect AI from foreign adversaries


U.S. President Joe Biden has released a memorandum calling on defense and national security agencies to protect AI against foreign spying.

President Joe Biden on Thursday is expected to sign a memorandum detailing how intelligence and national security agencies, including the Pentagon, should use and implement guardrails around AI, reports The New York Times. The order urges keeping humans “in the loop” of AI tools that may be used as targeting weapons, and prohibits letting AI make decisions on granting asylum, tracking someone based on their ethnicity or religion, or classifying a person as a “known terrorist” without human review. As The New York Times notes, it’s unclear how impactful the order will ultimately be, given most of the deadlines it sets will lapse after Biden leaves office.

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