Regulations may be coming for artificial intelligence as the Biden administration consults with researchers, industry groups and others on the potential risks of AI.
President Joe Biden appointed Alondra Nelson, a social scientist who has studied social inequality, to be the acting director of the White House science office.
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Among other broad policy objectives intertwined in President Biden’s “Executive Order on Tackling the Climate Crisis at Home and Abroad” is the direction to the secretary of the interior to “pause new oil and natural gas leases on public lands [and] in offshore waters.” This new indefinite moratorium on new leasing will require the “completion of a comprehensive review and reconsideration of federal oil and gas permitting and leasing practices.”
This action follows last week’s Secretarial Order 3395, issued by Acting Secretary of the Interior Scott de la Vega, that broadly suspended delegated authority to field personnel to “issue any onshore or offshore fossil fuel authorization, including but not limited to a lease, amendment to a lease, affirmative extension of a lease, contract, or other agreement, or permit to drill.” The order also included a suspension of the authorization to issue rights of way