This marks one of the first attempts by the U.S. federal government to reckon with the AI moment we're in. It follows the efforts in the European Union, which passed an AI act earlier in 2024. It also follows on from the efforts in the U.K. to create an AI safety institute.
This is an early and important attempt by the U.S. government to come to terms with how to ensure that Americans and the world get the great benefits of artificial intelligence while diminishing some of the existing harms as well as emerging risks of especially powerful AI models.
I'd frame this moment in two key ways. Number one: many people believe that governments around the world missed the opportunity in the 2010s to contain the problems of social media. Only recently do we see attention paid.
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