White House says ‘Mission: Impossible’ increased Joe Biden’s concerns about artificial intelligence

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Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One on Joe Biden’s concerns regarding artificial intelligence. The US President yesterday (October 31) signed an executive order to establish new standards and security measures surrounding AI – a move that Deputy White House chief of staff Bruce Reed said was partly informed by Biden’s “worry” after watching the latest Mission: Impossible film.“If [Biden] hadn’t already been concerned about what could go wrong with AI before that movie, he saw plenty more to worry about,” Reed told the Associated Press.

The Chief of Staff is said to have watched Dead Reckoning alongside the President at Camp David, following its release in July of this year.The Tom Cruise-led film features a sentient AI villain known as the Entity.

In various scenes, the AI is seen hijacking and sinking a Russian submarine, manipulating video footage of characters’ faces and impersonating human voices.These features of artificial intelligence have previously been cited as concerns for Biden, who Reed said “was profoundly curious about the technology” of AI in the months leading up to yesterday’s executive order.Reed said Biden had witnessed AI technology create “fake AI images of himself [and] of his dog”, and had seen it perform “the incredible and terrifying technology of voice cloning”.