July 22nd 2023.
The Biden-Harris Administration is taking big steps to ensure that the public is protected from the dangers of emerging artificial intelligence. According to a press release from the White House, several leading technology companies and firms have agreed to voluntary safety, security, and trust commitments. Google, Meta, Amazon, Microsoft, OpenAI, Anthropic, and Inflection met with the Biden Administration to discuss how companies can responsibly develop artificial intelligence.
The White House has been taking the potential risks associated with artificial intelligence very seriously. President Biden had a meeting with experts and leaders in the field in San Francisco, and Vice-President Kamala Harris had a meeting with consumer protection, labor, and civil rights leaders. This effort is an extension of the AI Bill of Rights framework the administration laid out in 2022.
However, some believe that even this is not enough. Amba Kak, the executive director of the AI Now Institute, told the Associated Press that “a closed-door deliberation with corporate actors resulting in voluntary safeguards isn’t enough.” She said that a much more wide-ranging public deliberation is needed, because it would lead to substantively different results, ones that may more directly impact business models.
Mustafa Suleyman, the CEO of Inflection, pushed back on this idea a bit. He told the Associated Press “It’s a big deal to bring all the labs together, all the companies,” Suleyman said. “This is supercompetitive and we wouldn’t come together under other circumstances.” He also said that the “red-team” tests the companies agreed to represent a significant commitment even though they are voluntary.
At the end of the day, it is up to the public to decide whether the White House’s initiative on artificial intelligence and the technology industry will work in the ways that it wants it to. Only time will tell if these agreements will be successful, but it is clear that the Biden-Harris Administration is taking this matter seriously.
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