Inside the OMB’s Bold New AI Playbook: How Innovation and Trust Hang in the Balance
The document is focused on the use of US Governmental materials in AI, continuing that contracts must “permanently prohibit the use of nonpublic inputted agency data and outputted results to further train publicly or commercially available AI algorithms, consistent with applicable law, absent explicit agency consent.”
Conclusion
In an admittedly different context, Belgian writer Raoul Vaneigem once said “[p]urchasing power is a license to purchase power.” The recent OMB memos provide an early look into how the current administration in the US may yield that power in the context of AI – with accountability, traceability, documentation, and care for IP rights being front and center.
