AI is a buzzword on everyone’s lips in 2024, and to quote a hit song from the 1980s, apparently “The future’s so bright I gotta wear shades.” In other words, many are quick to sing the praises of AI and the opportunities that lie ahead. However, as AI garners more and more headlines and becomes more ubiquitous, others, including employers, become more aware of some of the downside issues and risks attached to this new technology.

Last fall, the White House issued its “Executive Order on the Safe, Secure and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence.” The Order states it recognizes the “extraordinary potential for both promise and peril,” in AI. The order goes on to cite several critical expectations for artificial intelligence governance:

• It must be safe and secure, not just in terms of generalized cybersecurity risk, but also to determine that the system itself is “ethically developed and operated in a secure manner” and is “compliant with applicable federal laws and policies.”
• Promotes innovation, competition, and collaboration.
• It requires companies to use AI to support “American workers” charging governing agencies to “adapt job training and education to support a diverse workforce and help provide access to opportunities that AI creates.”
• All AI policies should be consistent with “advancing equity and civil rights” which would include “robust technical evaluations, careful oversight, engagement with affected communities and rigorous regulation.”

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