ChatGPT Risks Divide Biden Administration Over EU's AI Rules

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Biden administration officials are divided over how aggressively new artificial intelligence tools should be regulated — and their differences are playing out this week in Sweden.

Some White House and Commerce Department officials support the strong measures proposed by the European Union for AI products such as ChatGPT and Dall-E, people involved in the discussions said. Meanwhile, US national security officials and some in the State Department say aggressively regulating this nascent technology will put the nation at a competitive disadvantage, according to the people, who asked not to be identified because the information isn't public.

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. The proposal would force developers of artificial intelligence tools to comply with a host of strong regulations, such as requiring them to document any copyrighted material used to train their products and more closely track how that information is used.

Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo on Wednesday compared advancements in AI technology to social media, noting that in hindsight there should have been more restraint in its development. “The stakes are a whole lot higher” in AI, she said during a panel at the TCC meeting.

“Just because you can do it, doesn't mean you should,” Raimondo said. “And so as we figure out the benefits of AI, I hope we're all really eyes-wide-open about the costs and do the analysis of whether we should do it.”

National Security Council spokesman Adam Hodge said in a statement Tuesday the Biden administration is not divided and is working across the government to “advance