Critics warn America’s ‘move fast’ AI strategy could cost it the global market

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The Trump administration has made U.S. dominance in artificial intelligence a national priority, but some critics say a light-touch approach to regulating security and safety in U.S. models is making it harder to promote adoption in other countries.

White House officials have said since taking office that Trump intended to move away from predecessor Joe Biden’s emphasis on AI safety. Instead, they would allow U.S. companies to test and improve their models with minimal regulation, prioritizing speed and capability.

But this has left other stakeholders, including U.S. businesses, to work out the rules of the road for themselves.

Camille Stewart Gloster, a former deputy national cyber director in the Biden administration, now owns and manages her own cyber and national security advisory firm. There are some companies, she said, who “recognize that security is performance.”

This means putting governance and security guardrails in place so the AI behaves as intended, access is tightly restricted , and inputs and outputs are monitored for unsafe or malicious activity that could create legal or regulatory risk.

“Unfortunately [there are] a small amount of organizations that realize it at a real, tangible ‘let’s put the money behind it’ level, and there are a number of small and medium organizations, and even some larger ones, that really just want to move fast and don’t quite understand how to strike that balance,” she said Monday at the State of the Net conference in Washington D.C.

Stewart Gloster said she has seen organizations inadvertently put users at risk by giving AI agents too much authority and too little oversight, leading to disastrous results. One company she advised was “effectively DDoSing their customers” with their AI agent, who was “flooding their customers with notifications to the point where they were upset, but they could not stop it, because cutting off the agent meant cutting off a critical…

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