From ComputerWorld: US President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday directing the Justice Department to challenge state artificial intelligence laws the administration says threaten US competitiveness.
In his order, Trump is taking issue with state “requiring entities to embed ideological bias within models” — although the example he gave of embedding bias was “a new Colorado law banning ‘algorithmic discrimination’” that, he said, could “force AI models to produce false results in order to avoid a ‘differential treatment or impact’ on protected groups.”
The order establishes an AI Litigation Task Force within the Justice Department to challenge state laws on grounds they are “unconstitutional, pre-empted, or otherwise unlawful.” The order directed the Commerce Department to publish an evaluation of state AI laws that conflict with national policy priorities and to withhold Broadband Equity Access and Deployment funding from states with such laws.
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