Google, Microsoft among 7 firms pledging AI safeguards, says White House
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Amazon (AMZN), Google, Meta Platforms (NASDAQ:META) and Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) are among the companies that have made voluntary commitments to the White House to implement certain measures for the safe use of AI.
The White House said it has received voluntary commitments from seven U.S. companies â Amazon, Anthropic, Google's parent Alphabet (GOOG) (GOOGL), Inflection, Meta, Microsoft, and OpenAI â for internal and external security testing of their AI systems before their release.
The companies have also committed to use digital watermarking to help differentiate between real and AI-generated content â such as images, also known as deepfakes. The companies also pledged to methods for reporting vulnerabilities in their systems.
The companies committed to publicly report their AI systems' capabilities, limitations, and areas of appropriate and inappropriate use. The tech giants have also committed to prioritizing research on the societal risks that AI systems can pose, including on avoiding harmful bias and discrimination, and protecting privacy.
In addition, the White House added that the companies have committed to facilitating third-party discovery and reporting of vulnerabilities in their AI systems; and also pledged to share information across the industry and with governments, civil society, and academia on managing AI risks.
The White House noted that the Biden Administration has already consulted on the voluntary commitments with Australia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, France, Germany, India, Israel, Italy, Japan, Kenya, Mexico, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Nigeria, the Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, the UAE, and the UK.
The U.S. seeks to ensure that these commitments support and complement Japanâs leadership of the G-7 Hiroshima Process â as a critical forum for developing shared principles for the governance of AI â and the U.K.'s leadership in hosting a Summit on AI Safety, and Indiaâs leadership as Chair of the Global Partnership on AI, according to the White House.
Earlier this week, the U.N. Security Council held its first formal meeting to discuss potential economic and security impact from using AI. While China noted that the technology is "a double-edged sword," the U.S. warned that against the use of AI in spreading misinformation and carrying out malicious cyberoperations.
Gen AI services have taken the world by storm, since the launch of Microsoft (MSFT)-backed OpenAI's ChatGPT. The different types of large language models (LLMs) can provide, content and image generation services, to name a few, and are being used globally.
Companies around the world have launched their own LLMs, Baidu's (BIDU) Ernie Bot, Alibaba's (BABA) Tongyi Qianwen and Tongyi Wanxiang. Google's Bard, OpenAI's DALL-E, Midjourney Inc.'s Midjourney, to name a few.
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