Eight More Firms Signed by White House to Safe Artificial Intelligence Pledge
IBM, NVIDIA, and Adobe are examples of the eight firms seeking to focus on security, safety, and trust in progressing artificial intelligence. On Tuesday, eight additional United States-founded artificial intelligence (AI) firms included their names to a growing list of companies promising to create generative AI tools sensibly. This includes Scale AI, NVIDIA, and Cohere.
The White House announced the additions, which are part of an initiative introduced four months ago by the Biden Administration. At this time, industry leaders met with them to create common guardrails concerning the advancement of generative artificial intelligence.
Biden Administration Pushing for Safe AI Implementation
The introduction of ChatGPT by OpenAI into the mainstream in November was the trigger. In a statement, the White House said that the dedications the firms have opted to undertake instantly highlight three values central to AI’s future: security, safety, and trust. Besides, they indicate a crucial step toward the development of responsible artificial intelligence.
In May, Kamala Harris, the Vice President, met with Microsoft’s, Alphabet’s, Anthropic’s, and OpenAI’s heads to talk about the corporations’ and policymakers’ responsibility in supporting ethical and reliable innovations with measures that reduce risk and likely damage.
In July, seven major tech firms, including Microsoft, OpenAI, Meta, Amazon, and Google, signed on to the White House’s pledge. The White House believes that today’s meeting with Gina Raimondo, the United States Secretary of Commerce, and Jeff Zients, White House Chief of Staff, was a ‘second round of discretionary pledges.’
According to the blog post, Scale AI said that the commitments are essential to AI’s future. The truth is that advancement in frontier model capabilities should occur along with progress in model safety and assessment. Besides, this is the right and practical thing to do.
Martin Kon, Cohere’s President and chief operating officer (COO), said they were happy to join the commitments and see the White House being thoughtful about the unique risks, problems, and opportunities facing the enterprise artificial intelligence sector. He added that the latest meetings with government officials in Canada and the United Kingdom showed the firm’s eagerness to work with legislators.
US Join Forces with Other Regulators to Address AI Risks
During Tuesday’s testimony before the United States Senate Judiciary Committee, William Dally,NVIDIA’s chief scientist verified the computer element turned artificial intelligence developer has sanctioned the White House’s voluntary commitments to artificial intelligence.
He stated that as the company continues deploying the technology more vastly; it will keep establishing and addressing risks.
Dally’s comments to the Senate stress the need for balance concerning the regulation of AI and national security considerations. In addition, it is also crucial to consider the likely abuse of artificial intelligence technology against preserving the lead of the United States in this area of technology.
Dally told the senators that consistent thoughtfulness and being measured can result in safe, ethical,and trustworthy AI systems deployment. Also, without stifling innovation, promoting innovation is achievable by ensuring that artificial intelligence tools are broadly available to all people rather than being concentrated in the arms of a few influential companies.
IBM, Salesforce, IBM, Stability, Adobe, and Palantir are examples of additional firms joining Scale AI,NVIDIA, and Cohere in the White House pledge.
The AI’s disruptive potential, for good or bad, is the focus of policymakers across the globe. DuringTuesday’s hearing before the Senate Banking Committee, Gary Gensler, chair of the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) claimed that new technologies may ‘dispute’ the nation’s regulations. He quoted the utilization of artificial intelligence-created deep fakes in the market manipulation and online scams.
The move by the US regulators to nurture development of safe artificial intelligence aligns with the stance adopted across Europe by various data and privacy watchdog. Coincidentally, the EU urging global regulators to expedite guidelines to guide AI before the sector slips into anarchy.
