An extra hour to catch up on AI and parenthood

And a brief word about a bunch of words (Biden's new A.I. executive order)

Biden’s White House released an executive order last week all about artificial intelligence. They’ve been promising that it was coming for months. (And months and months.)

When it arrived last Monday morning, reporters went scrambling for “expert” commentary on the order A.S.A.P.

“What does this mean for American businesses?” they asked. “What about individual Americans?”

1. There are very few “experts” in this field — and some argue none at all. It’s too new. Everyone is still learning. No one went to school to learn this. No one has become on expert on the job. Looking for an expert in A.I. is like looking for an expert in internet. (Anyone else catching Ken’s “My job is beach” vibes here?)
   

2. What does it mean for American businesses and individual people? Honestly not much. The overly broad (“sweeping” as they all like to say) piece has no action items and no specificity. As is the norm for massive government movement, it took a very, very long time for them to say… nothing.
   

3. Reading through the fact sheet and scanning the actual order, one thing is clear. They think A.I. has the potential do a lot good and a lot of bad and everything in between.

So, in honor of taking a long time to say nothing new about something no one really knows about and taking both sides… Let’s use this week’s post to recap all the A.I. Parenthood posts we’ve done so far.

I know you have an extra hour today. Use it to catch up!