Biden’s Newest Bid To Clamp Down On AI Could Open The Door To More Online ‘Censorship,’ Experts Warn

The words “authenticating official content” raised a red flag for R Street Institute Senior Fellow Adam Thierer.

“Today’s Executive Order invites a lot of potential meddling by federal bureaucracies in AI markets and that includes the market for speech,” he told the DCNF. “Government efforts around ‘authenticating official content’ raise thorny questions about what constitutes disinformation or misinformation from a regulatory perspective.”

“We’ve already witnessed some policy fights about the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) controversial Disinformation Governance Board and we can expect those squabbles to intensify as more bureaucrats seek to make determinations about what constitutes acceptable algorithmic speech,” Thierer added.