The White House’s shambolic AI policy
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- Trump's June 2 executive order on AI encourages preflight testing but is voluntary, too narrow (focuses on cybersecurity), and ignores many foreseeable harms like those alleged in Florida's lawsuit.
- States like Florida and New York are forced to sue or subpoena AI companies because federal policy fails to address comprehensive AI risks, leading to after-the-fact enforcement.
- The Commerce Department's export control order abruptly shut down AI models (Fable, Mythos) and is widely criticized as arbitrary, reactive, and harmful to the US AI industry.
- The article calls for strong but measured, bipartisan, technically informed, and proactive AI oversight, rather than the current weak or hasty approaches.