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Biden Readies Executive Action on AI Use for Cyber Defense, Enhancing Software Security

The broad executive order will be the last big cyber policy effort by President Joe Biden before he leaves office.

An upcoming executive order soon to be signed by President Joe Biden will include language around using artificial intelligence for cyber defense, along with efforts to broadly tighten the cybersecurity of federal technologies, according to a summary of the executive order shared with POLITICO.

The executive order is the third that Biden will have signed while in office and is aimed at fortifying the nation’s cybersecurity through the use of AI and much-needed upgrades to federal security standards. This order will represent a grab-bag of final cyber requirements before Biden departs.

It is unclear whether President-elect Donald Trump will allow the order to remain in place once he takes office, as he has not yet signaled his intentions for strengthening cyber policies or agencies, though cybersecurity issues are typically of bipartisan concern. The order comes as federal agencies are continuing to assess the fallout from recent high-profile China-backed hacks, including a breach of the U.S. Treasury Department and an intrusion into U.S. telecommunications providers that allowed hackers to spy on the phones of several high-ranking U.S. officials, including Trump and Vice President-elect JD Vance.

Read the rest of the story at POLITICO.

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