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Executive Order 14110: Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence
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This Wikipedia article summarizes Biden's landmark 2023 AI executive order, which was a major US policy milestone before being revoked by Executive Order 14179 under the Trump administration in January 2025.
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Executive Order 14110, signed by President Biden in October 2023, established a comprehensive federal framework for AI governance in the United States. It directed agencies to develop safety standards, required developers of powerful AI systems to share safety test results with the government, and addressed issues ranging from biosecurity risks to civil rights protections and workforce impacts.
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- •Required developers of dual-use foundation models to report safety test results to the federal government under the Defense Production Act
- •Directed NIST to develop AI safety standards and established the AI Safety Institute within NIST
- •Addressed risks from AI in critical infrastructure, biological weapons development, and cybersecurity threats
- •Included provisions on algorithmic discrimination, privacy protections, and ensuring AI benefits are shared equitably
- •Coordinated across 50+ federal agencies to implement AI governance, representing the broadest US AI policy action to date
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Executive Order 14110 Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence  Signed Executive Order 14110 in the East Room of the White House Type Executive order Number 14110  President Joe Biden   Signed October 30, 2023  Federal Register details Federal Register
document number 2023-24283  Publication date October 30, 2023  Summary Creates a national approach to governing artificial intelligence. [ 1 ]
Executive Order 14110 , titled Executive Order on Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence (sometimes referred to as " Executive Order on Artificial Intelligence " [ 2 ] [ 3 ] ) was the 126th executive order signed by former U.S. President Joe Biden . Signed on October 30, 2023, the order defines the administration's policy goals regarding artificial intelligence (AI) , and orders executive agencies to take actions pursuant to these goals. The order is considered to be the most comprehensive piece of governance by the United States regarding AI. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] It was rescinded by U.S. President Donald Trump within hours of his assuming office on January 20, 2025. [ 6 ]
Policy goals outlined in the executive order pertain to promoting competition in the AI industry, preventing AI-enabled threats to civil liberties and national security, and ensuring U.S. global competitiveness in the AI field. [ 7 ] The executive order required a number of major federal agencies to create dedicated " chief artificial intelligence officer " positions within their organizations. [ 8 ]
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The drafting of the order was motivated by the rapid pace of development in generative AI models in the 2020s, including the release of large language model ChatGPT . [ 9 ] Executive Order 14110 is the third executive order dealing explicitly with AI, with two AI-related executive orders being signed by then-President Donald Trump . [ 10 ] [ 11 ]
The development of AI models without policy safeguards has raised a variety of concerns among experts and commentators. These range from future existential risk from advanced AI models to immediate concerns surrounding current technologies' ability to disseminate misinformation , enable discrimination , and undermine national security . [ 12 ]
In August 2023, Arati Prabhakar , the director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy , indicated that the White House was expediting its work on executive action on AI. [ 13 ] A week prior to the executive order's unveiling, Prabhakar indicated that Office of Management an
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