This chapter examines the growing call for AI regulation spurred by President Biden's executive order on AI safety. It emphasizes the importance of establishing ethical frameworks to manage the potential risks of AI technologies while leveraging their advantages.
In April of 2023, a man carrying a small, black box walked into one of the nation’s most secure buildings, right next to the White House. In the box were ingredients that could be used to create a bioweapon. What the man revealed about how he got his hands on these ingredients was even scarier: an AI chatbot had given him the recipe.
On today’s Big Take, host David Gura speaks to Bloomberg healthcare reporter Riley Griffin about why that stunt alarmed White House officials and woke them up to the potential dangers of AI-made bioweapons.