There is, he said, no reason to weaken the AI RMF by eliminating references to some of the real risks that AI poses. “To be sure, the Plan has some positive elements,” he said, “including promotion of open-source and open-weight systems, support for building an AI evaluations ecosystem, and an increased focus on the security of AI systems.” But ultimately, he said, it is “highly unbalanced, focusing too much on promoting the technology while largely failing to address the ways in which it could potentially harm people.”
‘An important step’
Matthew Eastwood, senior vice president of several technology research groups at IDC, including enterprise infrastructure and cloud, described Trump’s Plan as “a significant departure from what the [Biden] administration was leaning on specifically, trying to remove a number of friction points for enterprises. But having said that, it does open up some big questions around things like oversight, equity, long term security and whatnot.”
Despite those concerns, he said, “based on where we are with the development of AI as a forcing function for our economy and for the need for a healthy ecosystem around that, it’s an important step.”
This story originally appeared on Computerworld
