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Crafting AI’s Future: Decoding the AI

Executive Order

By Rajat Kohli, Partner at Zinnov

There is something to be learned from epic fantasy productions like Harry Potter. That every few years,
there will be a gifted wizard who doesn’t yet know their potential and has the power to do big things. But
when left untamed without any guidance and direction, they become capable of making things
detrimental, raising havoc of massive proportions. In the real world today, that wizard is AI.

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President Biden’s AI executive order (EO) is an attempt to not only provide powerful stakeholders
technological direction, but also longevity of impact through a self-sustaining machinery via mechanisms
for reliability, equity and accountability. Aimed at balancing AI’s innovation potential, this order will set
the tone for future AI regulations.

Impact on Business and Workflows

The EO delves into regulation AI from multiple ends. Provisions like disclosure of development process,
model weight ownership, and results of “red-teaming” and safety testing for dual-use foundation models
clearly demonstrate the aim to bolster transparency. Additionally, the directive to identify existing

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