With BigTech CEOs, Biden And Harris Discuss AI Regulation
US Vice President Joe Biden met with the CEOs of a number of top tech companies to talk about the risks of using artificial intelligence (AI) too quickly.
Along with other White House leaders and administration officials, the President and Vice President Kamala Harris spoke with Alphabet Google’s Sundar Pichai, Microsoft’s Satya Nadella, OpenAI’s Sam Altman, and Athropic’s Dario Amodei.
Harris was worried that AI would be used by everyone, which would threaten security, privacy, and human rights. Harris said that as leaders in their fields, the CEOs have a duty to protect their users and make sure their services are safe.
After OpenAI’s ChatGPT went viral around the world, AI use has been all over the news and raised more privacy and security issues. AI chatbots can write essays, notes, resumes, emails, and more. They can also copy sounds and make images, among many other things. A big worry is that AI could put people out of work and break into their privacy.
After the meeting, Altman told reporters “we’re surprisingly on the same page on what needs to happen.”
Several of the companies at the meeting, like Anthropic, Google, Hugging Face, NVIDIA Corp, OpenAI, and Stability AI, will let the public look at how they use AI.
The move shows that the Biden Administration is ready to back new rules about AI and will force chief executives to make sure compliance, which protects users. The Biden Administration said that it would give $140 million to the National Science Foundation to start seven new AI research centers. It also said that the federal government would put out guidelines for AI policy.
In 2022, the Office of Science and Technology Policy of the government released a Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights to help AI systems protect the American people. AI operations should be safe and effective, not include discriminating algorithms, have data privacy regulations, provide warning and explanation of procedures to users, and offer opt-out alternatives. The blueprint cites financial services as a critical resource or service, and that in sensitive domains (such as finance),
“your data and related inferences should only be used for necessary functions, and you should be protected by ethical review and use prohibitions.”
In February of this year, Biden signed an order to get rid of bias in AI. He has also put out a strategy for managing AI risks.
