Obama Is the AI Czar We Need for Global Cooperation
Not long after President Joe Biden unveiled his sweeping executive order on artificial intelligence, it emerged he had enlisted some notable outside help to craft it.
Over about five months, according to Jeff Zients, Biden's chief of staff, former President Barack Obama quietly advised the best way forward. Obama met with tech leaders and discussed key issues with leading advocacy groups and policy think tanks. It was the first time the current White House had reached out to Obama for direct help on policymaking. The result was a deep, detailed plan for the adoption and safeguarding of AI. Running to almost 20,000 words, the document was lauded for both its thoroughness and its ambition.
Speaking to technology news site The Verge, Obama said one of the tech bosses he met with indicated that the introduction of AI will be as disruptive as electricity. If that proves to be true, the challenges will be formidable. Obama is the right person to help guide us through them.
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Consider the many questions. How do you regulate AI without stifling innovation? How do you ensure global cooperation and standards? How do you protect vulnerable industries and job markets? How do you make sure tight controls at home don't result in geopolitical rivals like China surging ahead? It will take a leader of exceptional talent to even begin to tackle all — or any — of that. Obama is uniquely qualified and seems invigorated by the challenge.
While Donald Trump is often viewed as the Twitter president, it was Obama who was the first to be elected thanks to the then-emerging medium of social media. With a tech-savvy young campaign staff, Obama was able to secure many smalls donations from a vast number of
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