The White House will meet with four of America’s top artificial intelligence (AI) companies today for a “candid” discussion of current and near-term risks from technologies like ChatGPT, administration officials said.
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- Alphabet, Anthropic, Microsoft and OpenAI will meet with Vice President Kamala Harris and other White House officials today.
- A major focus of the discussion is the role businesses should play in mitigating the social, security, and economic risks posed by AI tools.
- The White House also announced that several AI chat tools will be evaluated at a public meeting in August.
Vice President Kamala Harris, along with other dignitaries, will meet with CEOs of Alphabet (GOOG), Anthropic, Microsoft (MSFT), and ChatGPT maker OpenAI. The focus of the conference will be on how to mitigate the potential risks that generative AI applications like text-producing ChatGPT can pose to society, security and the economy, said her Arati, director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy. Prabhakar said. Officials emphasize the role and responsibility these companies play in helping prevent these risks.
“The breadth of these applications impacts so many aspects of American life,” said Prabhakar. Google and Microsoft are merging AI-driven capabilities, and many investors are jumping on the AI bandwagon. On the other hand, AI technology can also change the nature of work.
The meeting is part of a broader effort by the White House to address the development of AI, including a call from President Joe Biden to direct federal agencies to eliminate bias in the use of new technologies such as AI. Also included is the February Executive Order of
The White House will announce that several AI companies will participate in public evaluations of their products at its big developer conference in August. This will be the first major public review of several large-scale language models. Stated.
In another step, the administration will announce $140 million in funding to create seven new National Science Foundation research institutes dedicated to AI research and development.
