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WorldPresident Biden invites AI executives to White House over safety concerns

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President Biden invites AI executives to White House over safety concerns

On Thursday, President Joe Biden met with the CEOs of some of the largest AI firms, including Microsoft and Alphabet’s Google, and emphasised the need for them to make sure their technologies are secure before they are used.

The term “generative artificial intelligence” has gained popularity this year as a result of the enormous public interest in apps like ChatGPT, which has prompted businesses to introduce similar products in the hopes that they will alter the nature of work.

Millions of users have begun testing such tools, which supporters say can make medical diagnoses, write screenplays, create legal briefs and debug software, leading to growing concern about how the technology could lead to privacy violations, skew employment decisions, and power scams and misinformation campaigns.

Mr Biden, who has used ChatGPT and experimented with it, told the officials they must mitigate the current and potential risks AI poses to individuals, society and national security, the White House said.

The meeting included a ‘frank and constructive discussion’ on the need for companies to be more transparent with policymakers about their AI systems, the importance of evaluating the safety of such products, and the need to protect them from malicious attacks, the White House added.

Thursday’s two-hour meeting which began included Google’s Sundar Pichai, Microsoft Corp’s Satya Nadella, OpenAI’s Sam Altman and Anthropic’s Dario Amodei. Vice president Kamala Harris and national security adviser Jake Sullivan were also present.

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Ms Harris said in a statement that the technology has the potential to improve lives but could pose safety, privacy and civil rights concerns. She told the chief executives they have a ‘legal responsibility’ to ensure the safety of their artificial intelligence products, and that the administration is open to advancing new regulations and supporting new legislation on artificial intelligence.

In response to a question about whether companies are on the same page on regulations, Altman told reporters after the meeting ‘we’re surprisingly on the same page on what needs to happen’.

The administration also announced a $140million investment from the National Science Foundation to launch seven new AI research institutes, and said the White House’s office of management and budget would release policy guidance on the use of AI by the federal government.

Leading AI developers, including Anthropic, Google, Hugging Face, NVIDIA Corp, OpenAI, and Stability AI, will participate in a public evaluation of their AI systems.

Shortly after Biden announced his reelection bid, the Republican National Committee produced a video featuring a dystopian future during a second Biden term, which was built entirely with AI imagery.

Such political ads are expected to become more common as AI technology proliferates.

US regulators have fallen short of the tough approach European governments have taken on tech regulation and in crafting strong rules on deepfakes and misinformation.

‘We don’t see this as a race,’ a senior administration official said, adding that the administration is working closely with the US-EU trade and technology council on the issue.

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