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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman (left), Google CEO Sundar Pichai, and Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella.
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The U.S. government will advise leading artificial intelligence companies on how to use the technology they are developing to protect airlines, utilities, and other critical infrastructure from attacks, especially those powered by AI. I'm looking for.
The Department of Homeland Security announced Friday that the committee it is creating will include CEOs from the world's largest companies and industries.
The list includes Google CEO Sundar Pichai, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, as well as defense contractors such as Northrop Grumman and airline Delta Air Lines. Also includes the top.
The move reflects the U.S. government's close collaboration with the private sector as it struggles to address both the risks and benefits of AI in the absence of any applicable domestic AI law.
The panel of experts will make recommendations to telecommunications companies, pipeline operators, utilities and other sectors on how they can use AI “responsibly,” DHS said. The group will also help prepare these sectors for “AI-related disruption.”
“Artificial intelligence is a transformative technology that can advance our national interests in unprecedented ways,” Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said in a release. “At the same time, it poses real risks, risks that can be mitigated by adopting best practices and taking other concrete, researched actions.”
Other participants on the panel include CEOs from technology providers such as Amazon Web Services, IBM, and Cisco. Chip manufacturers such as AMD. AI model developers such as Anthropic. civil rights organizations such as the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law;
Its members include federal, state, and local officials, as well as leading experts in the field of AI, such as Fei-Fei Li, co-director of Stanford University's Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence. There is.
The 22-member AI Safety and Security Commission is an outgrowth of a 2023 executive order signed by President Joe Biden, in which he directed a cross-industry group to “address the use of AI in critical areas. “Recommendations to improve related security, resiliency, and incident response.” infrastructure. ”
The same executive order also established government-wide rules this year regulating how federal agencies can purchase and use AI in their own systems. The U.S. government already uses machine learning and artificial intelligence for more than 200 different purposes, including monitoring volcanic activity, tracking wildfires, and identifying wildlife from satellite images.
Meanwhile, deepfake audio and video, which uses AI to push fake content, has emerged as a major concern for U.S. officials seeking to protect the 2024 U.S. election from rampant misinformation and disinformation. There is. In January, a fake robocall imitating Biden's voice urged Democrats not to vote in the New Hampshire primary, raising alarm among U.S. officials concerned about election security. A New Orleans magician told CNN he was hired by a Democratic political consultant to make robocalls. But there are concerns that foreign adversaries such as Russia, China and Iran could misuse the same technology.
“This is a real risk,” Mayorkas told reporters Friday while discussing the AI advisory board. “We are witnessing the involvement of hostile nation-states and are working to counter their efforts to unfairly influence our elections.”
