The White House, Artificial Intelligence, and Policymaking - DATAVERSITY

Glaser continues, "Although scholars and policymakers agree that Washington has a role to play here, it isn't clear what the path to that policy looks like--even as pressing questions accumulate. They include deciding when and how Google's self-driving cars take to American highways and examining how bias permeates algorithms. 'One thing we know for sure is that AI is making policy challenges already, such as how to make sure the technology remains safe, controllable, and predictable, even as it gets much more complex and smarter,' said Ed Felten, the deputy US chief of science and technology policy leading the White House's summer of AI research. 'Some of these issues will become more challenging over time as the technology progresses, so we'll need to keep upping our game'."