ChatGPT Risks Divide Biden Administration Over EU’s AI Rules

  • Some officials fear tough regulation will give China an edge
  • US and EU are discussing AI regulation this week in Sweden

Generative AI can respond to homework questions, design a power point or create images from text prompts.

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Biden administration officials are divided over how aggressively new artificial intelligence tools should be regulated — and their differences are playing out this week in Sweden.

Some White House and Commerce Department officials support the strong measures proposed by the European Union for AI products such as ChatGPT and Dall-E, people involved in the discussions said. Meanwhile, US national security officials and some in the State Department say aggressively regulating this nascent technology will put the nation at a competitive disadvantage, according to the people, who asked not to be identified because the information isn’t public.