President Donald Trump is sending the country’s artificial intelligence policy back to the drawing board, scrapping Biden-era protections such as those against biased algorithms in a move that some say will let AI proliferate unchecked.
A Trump executive order from January calls for a new AI action plan “free from ideological bias” to be developed within 180 days by a group of White House science and tech officials, including David Sacks, a venture capitalist and former PayPal executive whom Trump named as a special adviser for AI and crypto.
The lifting of Biden’s guardrails and the six-month long wait for a new action plan has companies in areas ranging from health care to talent recruitment wondering how to proceed, said Aaron Tantleff, a partner at the law firm of Foley & Lardner LLP specializing in tech policy.
