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Natalie Stoney Walters

Natalie Stoney Walters

Director and Senior Counsel for Boeing Defense, Space & Security (USAF & FMS E-7 Programs), and speaker on AI adoption at the BEYA STEM Conference.

Sep 17, 2026

Talitha WashingtonMODERATOR
19:31
It will be, I think, a component in the next elections if we make it so.
19:38
Yeah, I think what you're alluding to as well is that there has been a shift in how the United States treats and handles AI, right? And so if you look at the global landscape, you've got the United States, you've got basically the EU and then sort of everybody else, right? And what's significant about that 2025 executive order was that it started first with a January 2025 executive order, which said it was actually deregulating AI, right? That's kind of what it started.
20:13
And it actually removed Biden's executive order, which was focused on risk mitigation in AI.
20:22
And so we started off January 2025 with a deregulation of AI and we ended 2025 with the December 2025 executive order.
20:31
which actually is part of its attempt to say that it's gonna be a national policy, it has created a litigation task force to go after states who have AI regulation under the guise of, hey, we wanna stop the states who are gonna have a national policy.
20:48
Well, when you don't have a national policy that you put right after you've told the states no, no, no, back away, what do you have left, right? And so what you have left, United States, is no law, no statute that actually governs it, right? you have these discussions, I would say NIST is probably my recommendation is sort of the best framework that's out there.
21:09
And it's called the NIST AI Risk Management Framework.

45 MINS LATER

65:58
And then we just have to be prepared and understand how to leverage that environment, because that super intelligence can be used for good.
19:31
It will be, I think, a component in the next elections if we make it so.
19:38
Yeah.
19:40
I think what you're alluding to as well is that there has been a shift in how the United States treats and handles AI.
19:48
And so if you look at the global landscape, you've got the United States, you've got basically the EU, and then sort of everybody else.
19:56
And what's significant about that 2025 executive order was that it started first with a January 2025 executive order, which said it was actually deregulating AI, right? That's kind of what it started.
20:13
And it actually removed Biden's executive order, which was focused on risk mitigation in AI.
20:22
And so we started off January 2025 with a deregulation of AI and we ended 2025 with the December 2025 executive order.

45 MINS LATER

65:58
And then we just have to be prepared and understand how to leverage that environment, because that super intelligence can be used for good.

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