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Ah yes, that is calming. Because this regime has a reputation of restraint.
If the objective of the administration had been to place restrictions on all AI in general, heedless of restraint, then it could have just as easily written an executive order which did that instead. However, that is not what they did.
My intent is not to calm anyone, but merely to clarify. Honestly, I view this executive order as just being a relatively minor extension of previous (terrible) executive orders to say, "Oh, and this applies to AI too."
Couple things…
First, expanding existing edits to cover more things will get far less resistance and be harder to fight than the just making one heavy handed edict.
Second, this also creates a dependency that wasn’t there before. He’s poisoning the well for anyone who might follow.
I do not think that they are playing 5D chess in this particular executive order, since they are just taking their existing policies banning the federal government from anything having to do with DEI and extending them to AI, rather than doing something brand new.
Also, the good news is that, just as it only took a stroke of a pen to create these executive orders, it also will only take a stroke of a pen for anyone who follows to get rid of them.