{"id":290322,"date":"2024-08-02T12:35:37","date_gmt":"2024-08-02T12:35:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.techopedia.com\/?p=290322"},"modified":"2024-08-02T12:35:37","modified_gmt":"2024-08-02T12:35:37","slug":"white-house-says-no-limits-needed-for-open-source-ai-is-it-the-right-call","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.techopedia.com\/white-house-says-no-limits-needed-for-open-source-ai-is-it-the-right-call","title":{"rendered":"White House Says No Limits Needed for Open Source AI – Is It the Right Call?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Artificial intelligence<\/a> is a controversial technology. For some, it needs to be regulated and restricted to reduce risk \u2014 for others, it’s an invaluable tool that needs to be left to flourish.<\/p>\n

This week, we learned that the White House is firmly on the fence in this debate, after it released a report concluding that current evidence is not sufficient to implement restrictions on AI models<\/a> with “widely available weights” \u2014 or in layman’s terms, open-source AI models<\/a>.<\/p>\n

While this is great news for the open-source AI community, and for the democratization of model development, those who wanted the government to impose safeguards on AI development will likely find the decision insufficient.<\/p>\n

The White House’s decision comes less than a year after President Biden’s Executive Order on the Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence<\/a> called for expert recommendations on how the risks of open-source models (models with weights publicly available) could be managed.<\/p>\n

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