Biden touts safety in AI order that gives feds more control over the powerful technology

Adam Thierer of the free-market think tank R Street Institute said the executive order’s “broad and quite amorphous calls for expanded government oversight” could give Mr. Biden regulatory control over AI.

Mr. Thierer, an innovation policy expert, said the Biden administration appeared poised to transform voluntary guidelines into a “back-door regulatory regime for AI.”

“The danger exists that the U.S. could undermine the policy culture that made our nation a hotbed of digital innovation and investment,” Mr. Thierer said on social media. “We don’t want to become Europe on tech policy.”