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OpenAI, Microsoft, Alphabet, and Other Leading AI Firms to Meet President Biden
According to a TechCrunch report, representatives of top AI companies are set to meet with US President Joe Biden to discuss non-binding safety commitments and transparency goals associated with the rapidly-growing tech field.
In particular, top officials from leading AI developers, including OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, Meta, Amazon, Inflection, and Anthropic, are expected to visit the White House on July 21 and sit with President Biden to talk about the AI regulatory landscape. The planned meeting represents a purely voluntary action with no proposed rule or enforcement.
The move comes after the Biden administration collected “voluntary commitments” from 7 top US AI companies to meet safety and transparency goals ahead of an upcoming Executive Order, the report states. Notably, the aforementioned AI developers have pledged to take several necessary steps to enhance AI systems’ security and responsible deployment.
These include conducting security tests and “red teaming” before an AI system is released, sharing risk information with the government, academia, and “civil society,” investing in cybersecurity and insider threat safeguards, encouraging third-party vulnerability reporting, and developing watermarking or some other way of marking AI content. Further, the companies also committed to providing transparency on AI system capabilities and limitations and prioritizing research on societal risks, among other things.
US Concerned About AI’s Impact on Upcoming Elections
The US regulatory framework ensuring responsible and ethical use of AI technology could be years away while the industry continues to scurry. This gap has raised concerns among US lawmakers and tech entrepreneurs that AI could eventually pose safety and privacy risks.
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