The Biden administration’s AI plans: what we might expect

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• The Biden administration’s AI plans: But he has given several signals already about how his administration might think about and treat the technology.
• First, Biden elevated the director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) to a cabinet-level position, and appointed top geneticist Eric Lander, the founding director of the MIT-Harvard Broad Institute, to the role.
• As pointed out by Politico, this most clearly is an allusion to China, and the idea that the US is in a race with the country to develop emerging technologies like AI and 5G.
• OneZero’s Dave Gershgorn reported in 2019 that this had become a rallying cry at the Pentagon.