Donald Trump Calls For investment In Artificial Intelligence

President Donald Trump has signed an executive order directing federal ncies to prioritize research and development in artificial intelligence.

plan, called American AI Initiative, follows big investment pledges from China and or countries intended to vance and apply AI techlogy in fields ranging from warfighting to health care.

White House plan that Trump signed Monday doesn’t include any funding details. ministration says it’s up to Congress to appropriate money. That lack of specifics is troubling to AI experts such as Erik Brynjolfsson, a manment professor at Massachusetts Institute of Techlogy.

“ good news is America’s research infrastructure in artificial intelligence is leing world,” Brynjolfsson said. “But or countries are making much more aggressive investments and rapidly closing gap, especially China.”

Trump’s order directs federal ncies to make government data and computing resources more available to artificial intelligence experts while maintaining security and confidentiality. Creating such standards for capturing and sharing huge troves of data, such as medical records, could le to breakthroughs in medical diagsis and treatment, said Tom Mitchell, interim dean of Carnegie Mellon University’s computer science school.

order also calls on ncies to “protect civil liberties, privacy, and American values” in applying AI techlogies, and to help workers gain relevant skills through fellowships, apprenticeships, training programs and computer science education.

Tech leers from industry and acemia have pushed Trump ministration to develop a national AI strategy. White House in December hosted a listening session with CEOs of Google, Microsoft, IBM, Oracle and Qualcomm to field ideas for securing American dominance in AI and or fields such as quantum computing and faster wireless techlogy kwn as 5G. Trump me brief mentions of techlogy in his January State of Union dress, pledging “investments in cutting-edge industries of future.”

Kate Crawford, a co-director of New York University’s AI w Institute for studying social implications of artificial intelligence, said directive takes some steps in right direction but is too light on details.

“AI policy isn’t an automous vehicle,” Crawford said. “You basically need a detailed plan or it’s going to run off ro.”

Crawford said she welcomed Trump ministration’s intention to accelerate research and regulate AI across different industrial sectors. But she said ministration also must ensure that AI’s potential ethical challenges are taken seriously.

AI-based techlogies such as facial recognition can be used to enhance government surveillance, while studies have found that computers are susceptible to same racial and biases as humans whose data y learn from.

Brynjolfsson said it’s important for U.S. policymakers to t only push AI techlogy frontier, but also think hard about values and how techlogy is implemented.

“China in many ways has very different values than we have in West about things like surveillance, privacy, democracy, property rights,” he said. “If we want Western values to thrive, we need to play a role in maintaining and even extending techlogical strength we’ve long h.”

Ecomists have also warned that AI vances could displace many U.S. workers in coming years — something that Trump’s plan doesn’t do eugh to dress, said Brford Newman, an attorney who is pushing for a new regulatory body to govern AI issues.

“We can figure out how to regulate and account for downside risks w, or we can wait until it’s too late and it’s purely reactive and people are out of work,” Newman said.

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