July 22nd 2023.
The Biden Administration is taking artificial intelligence seriously, recently holding meetings with experts and leaders in the field to discuss its promise and potential risks. As part of a broader commitment to ensure AI is developed safely and responsibly, the Administration has come to an agreement with leading technology companies and firms 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.
This agreement is an extension of the AI Bill of Rights framework the administration laid out in 2022. Vice-President Kamala Harris had a meeting with consumer protection, labor, and civil rights leaders to discuss how to leverage the power of artificial intelligence while still protecting people from harm and bias. However, the AI Now Institute’s executive director Amba Kak doesn’t think that’s enough. She told the Associated Press that “A closed-door deliberation with corporate actors resulting in voluntary safeguards isn’t enough. We need a much more wide-ranging public deliberation, and that’s going to bring up issues that companies almost certainly won’t voluntarily commit to because it would lead to substantively different results, ones that may more directly impact their business models.”
Inflection CEO Mustafa Suleyman disagrees, saying that the “red-team” tests the companies agreed to represent a significant commitment, even though they are voluntary. Suleyman said “It’s a big deal to bring all the labs together, all the companies. This is supercompetitive and we wouldn’t come together under other circumstances.” These “red-team” tests involve inviting hackers to try and exploit the company’s systems, similar to those banks use to test their security systems.
As AI is used for more and more areas, it’s important that the public is able to trust that the technology is being used in an equitable and fair manner. It certainly looks like the White House is taking the initiative to ensure that, but only time will tell if this agreement will be enough to protect the public from the dangers of emerging artificial intelligence.
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