WASHINGTON: The White House will meet with top executives from Google, Microsoft, OpenAI and Anthropic on Thursday (May 4) to discuss the potential and risks of artificial intelligence.
Vice President Kamala Harris and other senior U.S. government officials will discuss ways to ensure consumers can benefit from AI while being protected from its harm, according to a copy of the invitation seen by AFP. is.
U.S. President Joe Biden expects tech companies to ensure their products are safe before releasing them to the public, the invitation said.
U.S. regulators last month took a step toward creating rules around AI to help the White House put the brakes on new technologies like ChatGPT.
The U.S. Department of Commerce has solicited input from industry insiders to help inform the Biden administration as it drafts regulations on AI.
In a statement, the Department of Commerce said, “Just as food and automobiles are not put on the market without adequate safety assurance, AI systems also need to assure the public, government and business that they are fit for purpose. I need to,” he said. time.
The US is home to some of the biggest innovators in technology and AI, including Microsoft-backed OpenAI, which created ChatGPT, but lags internationally in industry regulation.
In March, Google invited users in the US and UK to test an AI chatbot known as Bard.
Biden has called on Congress to pass legislation that tightens restrictions on the tech sector, but those efforts are unlikely to move forward given the political divisions among lawmakers.
The lack of rules has left Silicon Valley free to launch new products quickly, raising fears that AI technology will wreak havoc on society before governments catch up.
Billionaire Elon Musk founded an AI company called X.AI, based in Nevada, USA, in early March, according to business documents.
Already Twitter and Tesla boss Musk is listed as a director of X.AI Corporation, state business reports show.
Musk founded what he sees as a rival to OpenAI, even though he recently joined tech leaders and AI critics calling for a general pause in artificial intelligence development.
Google, Meta, and Microsoft have spent years developing AI systems to help with translation, Internet searching, security, and targeted advertising.
But late last year, San Francisco company OpenAI sparked interest in the AI space by launching ChatGPT, a bot that can generate natural-looking text responses from short prompts.
