What happened during the White House meeting on artificial intelligence?
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With artificial intelligence in the headlines and fears about what it can do to society, the White House convened a meeting on Thursday that sought to explore the dangers to public safety, civil rights and privacy, and faith in democracy.
Vice President Kamala Harris, White House Chief of Staff Jeff Zients, National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan, Director of the National Economic Council Lael Brainard and Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo all met with the CEOs of leading AI companies like Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) (NASDAQ:GOOGL), Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT), OpenAI and Anthropic.
What happened? "It was a frank conversation, which included discussion on three main things: is the need for companies to be more transparent with policymakers, the public, and others about their AI systems in particular; the importance of being able to evaluate, verify, and validate the safety, security, and efficacy of AI systems; and the need to ensure AI systems are secure from malicious actors and attacks," White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said in a press briefing.
"Look, we have led on these issues since long before these newest generative AI products, and will continue to do so in a way that mitigates risk and protects Americans," she continued. "That's what we want to move forward with. We're going to continue to have these engagement with critical stakeholders on this issue. This is important to the President."
Ahead of the meeting, the White House announced $140M in new spending on AI research by the National Science Foundation, as well as commitments from leading AI developers to allow their language models to be publicly evaluated during this year's DEF CON hacker convention.
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