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President Joe Biden participated in a meeting at the White House on Thursday with the chief executives of major artificial intelligence companies, including Google and Alphabet Inc’s Microsoft, to discuss risks and safeguards as the technology attracts the attention of governments and legislators.
This year, generative artificial intelligence has become a buzzword, with apps like ChatGPT capturing public attention and sparking a race among companies to come up with similar products that they believe will alter the nature of work.
Millions of users have begun testing the tools, which proponents say can make medical diagnoses, write scripts, create legal reports and debug software, sparking growing concern that the technology could lead to privacy violations, employment decisions biases, power scams and disinformation campaigns. .
A White House official told Reuters that Biden, who “went through” the meeting, also uses ChatGPT. “He has been thoroughly briefed on ChatGPT and has experimented with it,” said an official who requested anonymity.
Thursday’s two-hour meeting, which began at 11:45 a.m. ET (1545 GMT), includes Google’s Sundar Pichai, Microsoft Corp’s Satya Nadella, OpenAI’s Sam Altman and Anthropic’s Dario Amodei, along with Vice President Kamala Harris and administration officials, including Biden’s Head of State. Staff Jeff Zients, National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan, Director of the National Economic Council Lael Brainard and Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo.
Harris stated in a statement that while the technology has the potential to improve lives, it can also raise security, privacy and civil rights issues. She told CEOs that they have a “legal responsibility” to ensure the safety of their AI products and that the administration is willing to push for new regulations and support new AI legislation.
OpenAI’s Altman told reporters before the meeting that the White House wants to “get it right.”
Asked if the White House was moving fast enough on AI regulation, he replied: “It’s good to try to get ahead of the game.” “It will certainly be a challenge, but I am confident that we can overcome it.”
The administration also announced a $140 million investment from the National Science Foundation to establish seven new AI research institutes and that the White House Office of Management and Budget would issue policy guidance on the use of AI by of the federal government. 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 re-election bid, the Republican National Committee produced a video depicting a dystopian future during a second Biden term using only AI-generated imagery.
As artificial intelligence technology proliferates, such political ads are expected to become more frequent.
Regulators in the United States have fallen short of the rigorous approach that European governments have taken to regulating technology and developing strict rules regarding deepfakes and misinformation.
The senior official stated, “We don’t see this as a race,” adding that the administration is working closely with the US-EU Council on Trade and Technology on the matter.
In February, Vice President Biden signed an executive order directing federal agencies to eliminate bias in the use of artificial intelligence. In addition, the Biden administration has issued an AI Bill of Rights and a risk management framework.
The Federal Trade Commission and the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division announced last week that they would use their legal authority to combat AI-related injuries.
The tech titans have repeatedly pledged to crack down on electioneering propaganda, misinformation about COVID-19 vaccines, child pornography and exploitation, and hate speech directed at ethnic groups. However, research and current events demonstrate its failure.
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Source: vtt.edu.vn