Former President Barack Obama is reportedly advising President Joe Biden, 82, behind the scenes on artificial intelligence (AI), āthe most consequential technology of our time,ā as Biden phrased it this week.
The report validates speculation that Obama is intimately involved in steering the Biden administration.
Obama advised Joe Biden and his aides over the past five months on a strategy to tackle artificial intelligence, āengaging behind the scenes with tech companies and holding Zoom meetings with top West Wing aides at President Joe Bidenās request, according to aides to both men,ā NBC NewsĀ reportedĀ on Friday:
The current and former presidents discussed the issue on a phone call in June, aides to both of them said. They agreed on the goal of maximizing the technology while limiting the risks, according to Obama and Biden aides.
After that, Biden asked Obama to consult with his team to develop a policy that encourages innovation but also directly addresses the dangers of AI, their aides said. They then continued the discussion during a lunch at the White House, they said.
They agreed that they have a āshared vision,ā their aides said, and that the federal government should take swift action.
Obamaās influence over the Biden administrationās AI policy comes as conservatives worry that Bidenās aims to shape AI as a tool for Democrats to enforce censorship over conservatives.
This week, Biden announced an AI executive order, which he framed as an initiative to regulate the AI sector. āBidenās approach is more carrot than stick,ā Axios summarized. āThe order commits to āease AI professionalsā path into the Federal Governmentā and offer expanded AI training to bureaucrats.ā
āIt appears as though the Biden administrationās first goals when it comes to AI is to use robots to enforce censorship of āmisinformationā (i.e., normative conservative thought),ā Alex Marlow, editor-in-chief of Breitbart News,Ā wroteĀ on Wednesday.
The executive order will launch bias of āenshrining trendy woke opinion as cold-hard facts,ā Marlow added.
The law āmust advance the goals of ācivil rightsā and āequityā ā aka, the leftās diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) framework,ā Breitbartās senior Tech writer, Allum Bokhari, said








