Eight forerunners in new-technology, including Adobe, IBM, Nvidia, Palantir, and Salesforce, have reaffirmed commitments on the safe and secure development of artificial intelligence, reveals a high-placed official from the Biden administration. This stride towards mindful AI exploration builds on voluntary agreements declared earlier in the year by seven incluential AI-related entities, enlisting Microsoft and Google amongst others. The condemnations come as the administration endeavours to firmly regulate this fast-emerging technological beast.
"The president has urged us to tap into the benefits of AI, control the potential threats, and move forward at a rapid speed. We're following suit by affiliating with the private sector and exhausting every available resource to accomplish this mission," stated White House chief of staff Jeff Zients, ahead of the vital Tuesday meeting. Scheduled to attend the meeting are Zients himself, Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo, and several other tech industry tycoons.
In alignment with prior commitments, the new pledges include consent to external scrutiny of AI mechanisms before they are introduced to the public. Other commitments range from acknowledging and managing AI-generated content, instituting cybersecurity measures, sharing AI risk management information with industry peers and governments, investigating AI-related societal risks, to devising solutions for today's most pressing societal challenges.
These subsequent commitments also spotlight a broader representation from the industry, including companies engaged in business-to-business transactions and creative industries, shares a senior administration insider.
All while, the Biden administration is laboring to carve out decisive executive actions on AI, expected to be unveiled soon. This comes with ongoing discussions with Congress on shaping legislation to effectively regulate AI, reflecting President Joe Biden's concerns around the potential threats this emergent technology might pose to democracy and the nation's moral values.
The meeting precedes Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer's "AI Insight Forum" scheduled for Wednesday, with tech titans like Meta's Mark Zuckerberg, X's (previously Twitter) Elon Musk, Google's Sundar Pichai, and Nvidia's Jensen Huang among the attendees. Expected discussions revolve around AI regulation provoking further relevant dialogues in the ever-evolving AI landscape.
