White House Releases Guidelines for Artificial Intelligence Technology

The White House recently released guidelines on the development and deployment of artificial intelligence technology by federal agencies. While privacy and safety concerns surround the growing use and development of AI tools, the White House seems to be taking a softer approach toward regulation of the technology. In its memorandum published Wednesday, the White House said "federal agencies must avoid regulatory or non-regulatory actions that needlessly hamper AI innovation and growth." Simply put, artificial intelligence is a branch of computer science that trains machines or software to operate and solve problems as humans would. "Artificial intelligence is building systems that do things that if a human being were to do them, you'd consider them intelligent," said Kristian Hammond, computer science professor at Northwestern University.