Not long after watching Tom Cruise battle an evil AI in 'Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning,' President Biden signed an executive order on artificial intelligence.
Okay, not quite, but President Joe Biden did sign a new executive order on artificial intelligence that may have been partially inspired by a viewing of, Biden chose the summer blockbuster for a recent viewing at Camp David, but it proved to be less of an escapist experience than he probably hoped, as the movie's villainous AI,"the Entity," seemed to unnerve him.
"If he hadn't already been concerned about what could go wrong with AI before that movie, he saw plenty more to worry about," Biden's chief of staff, Bruce Reed, told the AP.Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times via Getty; Paramount Pictures/Everett In the film, the Entity destroys a Russian submarine after gaining sentience and threatens the entire global intelligence community with its access to weapons and government secrets.
Reed indicated that voice cloning is a particularly worrisome issue for the president, and he said that artificial intelligence was already on Biden's mind when he watched the film. In the months of meetings that led up to drafting the order, Biden "was as impressed and alarmed as anyone," Reed said. "He saw fake AI images of himself, of his dog. He saw how it can make bad poetry.
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