Biden praised the administration's accomplishments and highlighted future priorities such as frontier technology, artificial intelligence, and health research.
President Joe Biden highlighted several technology initiatives including the development of ethical artificial intelligence across the government during his State of the Union address on March 8.
Biden highlighted his public commitment to helping Americans recover after the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, such as his management of the passage of the bipartisan infrastructure bill. Biden said that 46,000 projects are being implemented to modernize roads, bridges, ports, airports and public transportation systems.
During the speech, Biden also emphasized goals to improve border security and immigration operations, including hiring more staff and implementing better technology to screen for drugs like fentanyl.
Biden added: “This bipartisan agreement will hire 1,500 additional agents and security officers, 100 additional immigration judges to help process the backlog of 2 million cases, 4,300 additional asylum officers and new policies so they can resolve cases in six months instead of six years now.” . He said. “100 more high-tech drug detection machines to dramatically increase the ability to screen and stop the vehicles smuggling fentanyl into America that is killing thousands of children.”
Biden emphasized how the bills introduced by both parties will affect technology policy.
“Pass bipartisan privacy legislation to protect our children online,” Biden said. “Exploit the promise of AI to protect us from danger. Ban voice imitation with AI and more.
Developing ethical AI has become an increasing priority for the White House. In October, Biden signed an Executive Order on Trustworthy and Secure AI, which calls on agencies to improve AI security, outlines best practices for developing ethical AI, and requires agencies to appoint senior AI officials to manage responsible AI policy across the world. across the government.
A Biden representative also cited the PACT Act of 2022, which supports veterans who were exposed to toxic risks that led to “millions of veterans now battling more than 100 different types of cancer.”
“Many of them are not going home. But we owe it to them and their families to support them. We owe it to ourselves to continue to support our new health research agency called ARPA-H and remind us that we can do big things like eliminate cancer as we know it,” Biden said.
Since Biden took office, he has spoken out about the climate crisis. Biden said the United States is using technology to cut carbon emissions in half by 2030, and that his administration is taking “the most significant climate action ever in the history of the world.” He also highlighted the Climate Corps, modeled after AmeriCorps and Peace Corps, which has recruited 20,000 young Americans to ensure a clean energy future.
“We are also making history by confronting the climate crisis, not denying it,” Biden said. “Creating tens of thousands of clean energy jobs, like IBEW workers building and installing 500,000 electric vehicle charging stations.” “Conserving 30% of America’s land and water by Year 2030.”
“To lead America, the land of possibility, you need a vision of the future and what can and should be done.”
