Foley & Lardner LLP partner Aaron Tantleff commented in the Roll Call article, “Trump reboots AI policy,” describing the impact on technology clients of the Trump administration’s pivot on artificial intelligence policy.
Tantleff explained how the cessation of guardrails established under the previous administration and a six-month waiting period for a new action plan has companies wondering how to proceed.
“I have clients saying ‘I can’t wait,’” Tantleff told Roll Call, adding that neither the technology companies developing AI systems or their end users are likely to stop work until a new AI framework emerges.
“Everything is off the table, there are different rules, bias is going to be taken out, barriers to innovation are gone, so potentially we are in an era of unchecked development of AI systems,” Tantleff continued. “What are the safety measures, what are the guardrails, how do you proceed?”
Pointing to the European Union’s more restrictive approach to AI that applies to multinational corporations deploying AI systems if they impact EU citizens, Tantleff said, “Multinational companies are saying, ‘I can’t not comply with EU laws,” noting that global companies in compliance with EU guardrails prohibiting discrimination and bias could run into conflict with the Trump administration’s new policies.
“We don’t know what’s going to happen,” he added.
Tantleff’s commentary also appeared in MSN.
