WASHINGTON: A White House official said the chief executives of Alphabet Inc’s Google, OpenAI, Microsoft, and Anthropic would meet with US Vice-President Kamala Harris and top administration officials on Thursday to discuss critical artificial intelligence problems.
The invitation seen by Reuters to the CEOs noted Joe Biden’s President of US “expectation that companies like yours must ensure their products are sheltered before making them available to the public.”
Concerns about fast-growing artificial intelligence technology include privacy violations, bias and worries that it could proliferate scams and misinformation.
Biden said, in April, whether artificial intelligence is dangerous remains to be seen but underscored that tech companies had a responsibility to ensure their products were safe. He said that social media had illustrated the harm that powerful technologies could do without the proper safeguards.
The administration has been seeking public comments on proposed accountability measures for artificial intelligence systems as concerns grow about its impact on US national security and education.
White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and Deputies from the White House Domestic Policy Council wrote in a blog post about how the technology can pose a serious risk to employees.
White House officials
The Thursday meeting would be attended by President Biden’s Chief of Staff, Jeff Zients; National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan; Deputy Chief of Staff, Bruce Reed; Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo; Director of the National Economic Council, Lael Brainard and among others, said the White House official who didn’t wish to be named.
The companies didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.
ChatGPT, an artificial intelligence program, recently grabbed the public’s attention for its capability to write answers to a wide range of queries; in particular, it has attracted United States lawmakers’ attention as it has grown to be the speedy-growing consumer application with more than hundred million monthly active users.
“I think we should be cautious with artificial intelligence, and I think there should be some government oversight because it harms the public,” Tesla Chief Executive Elon Musk said last month in a television interview.
