AI has saturated our content streams this year. Whether it’s the latest generated image trend, a scandalous AI “hallucination” in a news feed, or an entertaining (albeit chilling) chatbot conversation – it’s likely you’ll have had some interaction with the technology on your news feed.
For financial services, it has sparked an era of promise. Applications have leveraged AI to enhance their offerings, and as the technology’s development has continued, it’s set to be integrated even more.
However, it has sparked concerns. Privacy and bias have proved to be legitimate issues in the development of AI-driven financial products. Left unchecked, it could have serious implications on the wider ecosystem.
It was an unregulated disaster waiting to happen.
But, today, the Biden Administration may have avoided AI-induced chaos by issuing a sweeping executive order to manage the risks of AI.
Addressing privacy, ethics, and workplace uncertainty, it’s the announcement many have been waiting for, setting in motion a deployment of regulatory safeguards that have been percolating in the background.
FEATURED
Biden unveils U.S. government’s first-ever AI executive order
By Hayden Field,Lauren Feiner
The executive order builds on voluntary commitments the White House previously secured from leading AI companies.
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