AI risks: Biden meets Microsoft's Satya Nadella and Google's Sundar Pichai
Washington, May 5: To discuss the risks of artificial intelligence, US President Joe Biden on Thursday attended a White House meeting with top players in the field, including Alphabet Inc's Google (GOOGL.O) and Microsoft (MSFT.O).
The popularity of apps like ChatGPT has made the term "generative artificial intelligence" popular this year, spurring a rush among businesses to release similar products they believe would alter the nature of work.
Millions of users have started experimenting with these tools, whose supporters claim can make medical diagnoses, write screenplays, create legal briefs, and debug software. As a result, there is growing worry that the technology could result in privacy violations, skew employment decisions, and be used in power scams and misinformation campaigns.
According to Reuters, Biden, who "dropped by" the meeting, has also used ChatGPT. "He's been extensively briefed on ChatGPT and (has) experimented with it," added the anonymous official.
The two-hour meeting began at 11:45 am ET (1545 GMT) and included Google's Sundar Pichai, Microsoft Corp's Satya Nadella, OpenAI's Sam Altman and Anthropic's Dario Amodei, along with Vice President Kamala Harris and administration officials including Biden's Chief of Staff Jeff Zients, National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan, Director of the National Economic Council Lael Brainard and Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo.
In a statement, Harris stated that while technology has the ability to benefit lives, it may also pose safety, privacy, and civil rights concerns. She informed the CEOs that companies have a "legal responsibility" to safeguard the safety of their artificial intelligence technologies, and that the government is open to adopting new laws and supporting new artificial intelligence legislation.
The administration also announced a $140 million National Science Foundation investment in seven new AI research institutions, as well as the release of policy guidance on the federal government's use of AI by the White House's Office of Management and Budget.
Leading AI developers will engage in a public evaluation of their AI systems, including Anthropic, Google, Hugging Face, NVIDIA Corp (NVDA.O), OpenAI, and Stability AI.
Shortly after Biden declared his reelection campaign, the Republican National Committee released a video featuring a dystopian future during a second Biden term, which was built entirely with AI imagery.
As AI technology advances, such political advertisements are projected to become more common.
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- With inputs from agencies
