Building the Public's Trust in AI Is Key to Coming Guidance, White House Official Says

The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy's Assistant Director for Artificial Intelligence offered fresh details Wednesday into a memo being developed to help foster public trust and build agencies' confidence in regulating artificial intelligence technologies. "This is a memo directed to agencies that suggests regulatory and non-regulatory principles for how you oversee the use of AI in the private sector," Lynne Parker, OSTP's assistant director for artificial intelligence, said. "So these will establish some common principles [and] some predictability across agencies in terms of how they think about regulatory and non-regulatory approaches to the use of AI." In February, President Trump issued an executive order to accelerate American advancements in AI. One of the key priorities of the order, Parker noted, is to "foster public trust and confidence in AI technologies and protect civil liberties, privacy, and American values in their application in order to fully realize the potential of AI technologies for the American people."