Biden administration officials are divided over how aggressively new AI tools should be regulated.
Some White House and Commerce Department officials support the EU’s strong AI regulation proposals, people involved in the discussions said. Meanwhile, national security officials and some in the State Department say aggressively regulating this nascent technology will put the nation at a competitive disadvantage.
This dissonance has left the US without a coherent response during this week’s US-EU Trade and Technology Council gathering in Sweden to the EU’s plan to subject generative AI to additional rules. How the EU decides to regulate AI arguably matters more …