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US technology companies including Google and OpenAI are set to publicly pledge to promote security and transparency in the development of artificial intelligence at the White House on Friday.
The White House says executives from Amazon, Anthropic, Google, Inflection AI, Meta, Microsoft and OpenAI will make “voluntary” commitments to help advance the safe, secure and transparent development of AI technology.
The commitments – which include agreeing on internal and external security testing before AI systems are released to the public – come less than three months after the Biden administration convened tech officials at the White House for what was described as a “frank discussion”. Security concerns related to AI.
Several executives are expected at the White House to promote their new public ventures, including Microsoft President Brad Smith, Inflection AI Chief Executive Mustafa Suleiman and Nick Clegg, President of Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram.
In addition to committing to more safety testing, the companies will also pledge to share more information with industry and government about how they are mitigating risks. The White House said they would also promise to invest more money on cybersecurity safeguards, and to make it easier for third parties to discover and report vulnerabilities in their systems.
The Biden administration and lawmakers on Capitol Hill have struggled to craft a coherent policy response to the rapid advances in AI technologies that have emerged in recent months.
The White House called the voluntary commitments “an important step toward developing responsible AI”, but noted that the administration was still preparing an executive order, and passed legislation from Congress to further regulate the development of AI. was urging to do.
A White House official said the voluntary commitments are “advancing what the companies are doing and raising the standards of safety, security and trust” of AI. However, this “did not change the need” for the bipartisan legislation and the White House executive order.
“This is a high priority for the president and the team here,” the official said.
