Meta, Google and A.I. Firms Agree to Safety Measures in Biden Meeting - The New York Times

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Meta, Google and A.I. Firms Agree to Safety Measures in Biden Meeting - The New York Times

Amazon, Google and Meta are among the companies that announced the guidelines as they race to outdo each other with versions of artificial intelligence. Video transcript transcript Biden Delivers Remarks on Artificial Intelligence The president met with seven leading A.I. companies that have committed to voluntary standards to manage the risks associated with the emerging technology. And today, I’m pleased to announce that these seven companies have agreed to voluntary commitments for responsible innovation. These commitments, which the companies will implement immediately, underscore three fundamental principles: safety, security and trust. First, the companies have an obligation to make sure their technology is safe before releasing it to the public. That means testing the capabilities of their systems, assessing their potential risk and making the results of these assessments public. Second, companies must prioritize the security of their systems by safeguarding their models against cyberthreats and managing the risks to our national security, and sharing the best practices and industry standards that are necessary. Third, the companies have a duty to earn the people’s trust and empower users to make informed decisions. Labeling content that has been altered or A.I.-generated. Rooting out bias and discrimination, strengthening privacy protections and shielding children from harm. The president met with seven leading A.I. companies that have committed to voluntary standards to manage the risks associated with the emerging technology. Credit Credit... Kenny Holston/The New York Times July 21, 2023 Updated 6:02 p.m. ET Seven leading A.I. companies in the United States have agreed to voluntary safeguards on the technology’s development, the White House announced on Friday, pledging to manage the risks of the new tools even as they compete over the potential of artificial intelligence. The seven companies — Amazon, Anthropic, Google, Inflection, Meta, Microsoft and OpenAI — formally made their commitment to new standards for safety, security and trust at a meeting with President Biden at the White House on Friday afternoon. “We must be cleareyed and vigilant about the threats emerging from emerging technologies that can pose — don’t have to but can pose — to our democracy and our values,” Mr. Biden said in brief remarks from the Roosevelt Room at the White House. “This is a serious responsibility; we have to get it right,” he said, flanked by the executives from the companies. “And there’s enormous, enormous potential upside as well.” The announcement comes as the companies are racing to outdo each other with versions of A.I. that offer powerful new ways to create text, photos, music and video without human input. But the technological leaps have prompted fears about the spread of disinformation and dire warnings of a “risk of extinction” as artificial intelligence becomes more sophisticated and humanlike. The voluntary safeguards are only an early, tentative step as Washington and governments across the world seek to put in place legal and regulatory frameworks for the development of artificial intelligence. The agreements include testing products for security risks and using watermarks to make sure consumers can spot A.I.-generated material. But lawmakers have struggled to regulate social media and other technologies in ways that keep up with the rapidly evolving technology. The White House offered no details of a forthcoming presidential executive order that aims to deal with another problem: how to control the ability of China and other competitors to get ahold of the new artificial intelligence programs, or the components used to develop them. The order is expected to involve new restrictions on advanced semiconductors and restrictions on the export of the large language models. Those are hard to secure — much of the software can fit, compressed, on a thumb drive. An executive order could provoke more opposition from the industry than Friday’s voluntary commitments, which experts said were already reflected in the practices of the companies involved. The promises will not restrain the plans of the A.I. companies nor hinder the development of their technologies. And as voluntary commitments, they will not be enforced...