Who's going to save us from bad AI?

That was the response from AI policy and ethics wonks to news last week that the Office of Science and Technology Policy, the White House's science and technology advisory agency, had unveiled an AI Bill of Rights. The document is Biden's vision of how the US government, technology companies, and citizens should work together to hold the AI sector accountable. The US has so far been one of the only Western nations without clear guidance on how to protect its citizens against AI harms. Tech companies say they want to mitigate these sorts of harms, but it's really hard to hold them to account. The AI Bill of Rights outlines five protections Americans should have in the AI age, including data privacy, the right to be protected from unsafe systems, and assurances that algorithms shouldn't be discriminatory and that there will always be a human alternative.