Former Biden official endorses AI order as good industrial policy amid concern from public interest group

The Biden administration’s executive order on artificial intelligence is “absolutely” good industrial policy, according to former special assistant to the president for technology and competition policy Tim Wu, who recently diverged somewhat from public interest advocates in validating efforts to beat China in a race to develop the technology.

“Mildly breaking with some of the other remarks, I do take the idea of an arms race seriously,” Wu said, “I do think we are in, you know, not openly hostile,...