Imagine If Joe Biden’s AI Executive Order Were Inspired by The Terminator
WiredScience fiction, for decades, has been about predicting the future—and warning against it. Earlier this week, US President Joe Biden signed a massive executive order outlining policies on the use and development of AI going forward. Applying the thinking of both AI doomers and Trekkies, it aims to encourage AI’s greatest minds to work for the government and includes stipulations to keep the technology from becoming a national security threat. In an interview with the Associated Press, Bruce Reed, the White House’s deputy chief of staff, said the president had taken a lot of meetings to learn about AI and was “as impressed and alarmed as anyone.” He’d seen the fake images, the “bad poetry,” the voice clones. There’s a reason WIRED called Dead Reckoning the “perfect AI panic movie.” In it, an AI known as The Entity becomes fully sentient and threatens to use its all-knowing intelligence to control military superpowers all over the world.