White House AI Executive Order Takes On Complexity of Content Integrity Issues
Renée DiResta is the technical research manager at Stanford Internet Observatory. Dave Willner is a Non-Resident Fellow in the Program on Governance of Emerging Technologies at Stanford Cyber Policy Center.
On the morning of October 30th, the Biden White House released its long-awaited Executive Order on Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence. There are many promising aspects of the document, and the initiatives it outlines. But on the subject of content integrity – including issues related to provenance, authenticity, synthetic media detection and labeling – the order overemphasizes technical solutions.