Pentagon CTO says the US will spell out this month the laws that apply to AI labs
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Emil Michael expects the US government to put in writing, within a week or two, the full set of laws that already affect those building AI. Michael wants Americans to trust those companies. Otherwise, he warned, 535 legislators could pass rules able to sink the industry.
Emil Michael, the Pentagon's chief technology officer (CTO), said on Wednesday, November 4, that the US federal government will set out before the end of this month every law and rule that already covers the country's AI labs. He made the announcement during a Wall Street Journal tech conference in Napa, California, according to a Reuters report carried by The Straits Times.
Michael is also vice chair of the Super Intelligence Task Force, the intergovernmental body that President Donald Trump created to shape AI policy. As he put it, that group will make the regulatory picture public "in the next week or two".
The aim, he said, is a framework that gives Americans confidence that these companies are "going to do the right thing". Otherwise, he warned, the result would be 535 legislators drafting regulation that "could kill the industry". Michael offered no further details.
Why it matters · analysis and opinion
What is being announced is not a new law but an inventory: gathering in a single document the obligations already faced by those who develop advanced models. That could bring clarity to a highly exposed sector, but it also reveals the government's strategy: getting ahead of regulation written by legislators, which Michael himself presents as a threat. It remains to be seen whether the document arrives within the promised time and whether it contains verifiable commitments or is just a review of what is already in force. For companies that use these models nothing changes for now, but the announcement is worth following, because it will set the tone of federal AI policy in the coming months.
Source: The Straits Times (Reuters) · Written with the help of AI: how we make the news
