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WHAT SEVEN AI COMPANIES SAY THEY’LL DO TO SAFEGUARD THEIR TECH

Seven AI companies announced commitments to share information to improve risk
mitigation with governments, civil society and academics — and report
vulnerabilities as they emerge — in addition to testing their systems more
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President Biden said the United States must guard against threats from
artificial intelligence as he detailed new company safeguards and promised
additional government actions on the emerging technology.

“These commitments are real and are concrete. They’re going to help the industry
fulfill its fundamental obligation to Americans to develop safe, secure and
trustworthy technologies that benefit society and uphold our values,” Biden said
Friday.

Executives from Amazon.com, Alphabet, Meta Platforms, Microsoft, OpenAI,
Anthropic and Inflection AI — all of which committed to adopting transparency
and security measures — joined Biden at the White House for the announcement.

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Biden said the company measures are only the first step and pledged to take
executive actions while working with Congress to enact rules and regulations
governing AI. “We must be clear-eyed and vigilant about the threats,” he said.

The companies have agreed to put new artificial intelligence systems through
internal and external tests before their release and have outside teams
scrutinize them for security flaws, discriminatory tendencies or risks to
consumer privacy, health information or safety. They have also promised to share
information with governments, civil society and academia and to report
vulnerabilities.

“These commitments, which companies will implement immediately, underscore three
fundamental principles: safety, security and trust,” Biden said.

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Friday’s guidelines are the result of months of behind-the-scenes lobbying.
Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris met in May with many of the executives
present at Friday’s event, warning them that industry was responsible for
ensuring its products are safe.

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Biden’s aides say artificial intelligence has been a top priority for the
president, who frequently brings up the topic in meetings with advisors. He has
also directed Cabinet secretaries to examine how the technology might intersect
with their agencies.

The package of safeguards formalizes and expands some measures already being
undertaken at major AI developers, and the commitments are only voluntary. The
guidelines do not require approval from specific outside groups before companies
can release AI technologies, and they are required to only report — not
eliminate — risks such as possible inappropriate use or bias.

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“It’s a moving target,” White House Chief of Staff Jeff Zients said in an
interview. “We not only have to execute and implement on these commitments, but
we’ve got to figure out the next round of commitments as the technologies
change.”

Zients and other administration officials have said it will be difficult to keep
pace with emerging technologies without legislation from Congress that imposes
stricter rules and includes dedicated funding for regulators.

“They’re going to require some new laws, regulations and oversight,” Biden said
Friday.

Before Friday’s event, AI companies said the steps would better manage the risks
from a technology that is rapidly evolving and that has seen public interest
explode in recent months.

Nick Clegg, president of global affairs at Meta, said in a statement that the
voluntary commitments are an “important first step in ensuring responsible
guardrails are established for AI and they create a model for other governments
to follow.”

Microsoft President Brad Smith said Friday’s commitments “help ensure the
promise of AI stays ahead of its risks.” He said Microsoft supports other
measures to track the most powerful AI models, including a licensing regimen,
“know-your-customer” requirements and a national registry of high-risk systems.

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Kent Walker, Google’s president of global affairs, put Friday’s commitments in
the context of other international efforts by the Group of Seven and
Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development to “maximize AI’s benefits
and minimize its risks.” He said that AI is already used in many of Google’s
most popular products such as Search, Maps and Translate, and that the company
designs its systems to be “responsible from the start.”

The White House said it consulted the governments of 20 other countries before
Friday’s announcement. But the pace of oversight is already lagging behind AI
developments.

In Europe, the European Union’s AI Act is far ahead of anything passed by the
U.S. Congress, but leaders there have recognized that companies will need to
make voluntary commitments to safeguard their technology before the law is in
place.






















































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