Biden praises AI companies’ agreement to adopt guardrails for protecting user data
Christopher Hutton
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President Joe Biden praised the seven leading artificial intelligence companies who voluntarily agreed to uphold a series of commitments designed to set guardrails for how artificial intelligence treats users and their data.
Biden announced the voluntary partnership on Friday that the White House had reached with seven leading AI companies: Amazon, Anthropic, Google, Inflection AI, Meta, Microsoft, and OpenAI. Biden then attended a private meeting with executives from all seven companies. The commitment is the latest effort by the White House to establish guidelines for reining in the rapidly expanding industry of AI and ensuring people are safe while using it.
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“We’ll see more technology change in the next 10 years or even in the next few years than we’ve seen in the last 50 years,” Biden said. “That is an astounding revelation to me.”
Biden called the seven companies “critical” to shepherding safety and innovation within the industry of AI.
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The companies voluntarily committed to include security testing of the AI systems before their release, investing in cybersecurity protections for future AI models, and publicly disclosing the capabilities of their systems. The agreement also includes attaching elements such as watermarks to AI-generated images to ensure they are identifiable as such. The companies have also agreed to use AI to help combat several of society’s greatest challenges, including cancer and climate change.
Biden also praised Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer’s (D-NY) efforts to build a framework for AI laws in the United States, although legislation has stalled in recent weeks.