Biden’s broad AI initiative is what we need to fight online security and privacy threats

U.S. President Joe Biden’s much-anticipated executive order (EO) on artificial intelligence set a new tone for the U.S. — markedly different from the Trump administration’s “AI with American values” that defined technical progress primarily as maintaining a lead over China.

In contrast, the Biden administration is emphasizing a global perspective focusing on multilateral initiatives to support privacy enhancing technologies, new safety standards, and reporting requirements and technical research to address global problems….