At a White House meeting, President of USA, Biden reportedly told American tech executives that they have a “moral” obligation to prevent artificial intelligence from causing harm to society.
Google, Microsoft, OpenAI, and Anthropic CEOs met for two hours on Thursday at the invitation of Vice President of USA Kamala Harris to discuss the progress and regulation of artificial intelligence.
Vice President who was only in attendance for a short time, warned the business leaders that their job carried “enormous potential and enormous danger.”
According to a video shared by the White House, Biden remarked, “I know you understand that.”
And I’m hoping you can inform us of the steps you believe are most important for safeguarding society and advancing it.
After the meeting, Harris issued a statement saying that tech firms “must comply with existing laws to protect the American people” and “ensure the safety and security of their products.”
Officials from USA thinks its necessary for the safety of humanity
According to the White House, there was “frank and constructive discussion” at the meeting about the importance of tech companies being more forthcoming with the government about their AI technology and the need to safeguard such products against malicious assaults.
After the meeting, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told reporters, “We’re surprisingly on the same page on what needs to happen.”
The conference was called after the Biden administration revealed intentions to invest $140 million in seven new AI research institutes, create an independent commission to conduct public assessments of existing AI systems, and establish rules for the federal government of USA use of AI.
Concerns about social harm and the potential of the technology falling beyond of developers’ control have been raised alongside optimism about the rapid pace of growth in AI.
Although artificial intelligence is still in its infancy, it has already been at the centre of a number of controversies, including the dissemination of false information and the use of AI in non-consensual pornography, and even the suicide of a Belgian man who was allegedly encouraged to do so by an AI-powered chatbot.
More than a third of researchers polled last year by Stanford University USA said they feared AI may lead to a “nuclear-level catastrophe” in their field of study, which is natural language processing.
In March, Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla, and Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple, were among 1,300 signatories to an open letter calling for a six-month halt on training AI systems because “powerful AI systems should be developed only once we are confident that their effects will be positive and their risks will be manageable.”
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