EO Feedback: McAfee cautions against legislating new rules, CDT praises ‘high bar’ for agencies on AI usage

President Biden’s executive order on artificial intelligence is a positive step, according to security firm McAfee’s chief technology officer Steve Grobman, but potential moves in Congress to set regulatory requirements around AI would favor the largest companies in the AI marketplace, as well as adversaries, and fail to achieve the desired results.

“The case for establishing safeguards for AI’s implementation is compelling. The case for regulating the technology at its core is not. The U.S. should not rush to broadly...