President Joe Biden fears that the US Congress and legislation will not be able to keep up with the rapid technological development around AI, artificial intelligence. Therefore, on Friday, he called representatives from the seven largest AI companies to a meeting in the White House.
After the meeting, Amazon, Anthropic, Google, Inflection, Meta, Microsoft and OpenAI decided to take self-regulatory safeguards against everything from cyber attacks to fraud.
– Promises have come in the past that have run into the sand. Voluntariness is good, but we have seen historically that it has not always been followed up, so it is also necessary to legislate requirements, says Ali Leylani, AI expert at Granditude and vice chairman of Stockholm AI.
“Watermark” on AI material
Among other things, the companies have said that they must conduct independent internal and external security checks of their systems before they are released, as well as report security problems to authorities.
They will also introduce a kind of watermark for AI material so that the user can see that it is AI generated.
– It is now possible to create content that cannot be separated from reality. The big concern is that it will lead to incorrect information being spread on a scale that has not been seen before, says Ali Leylani.
Fear of electoral influence
Ahead of the 2024 US presidential election, AI has emerged as a potential influencer, as AI-generated videos and voices make it easier to spread disinformation and carry out fraud.
There is already a fabricated commercial where former President Donald Trump’s voice is artificially generated.
– Social media has shown the damage that powerful technology can do if protective measures are not in place. We must be clear-eyed and vigilant about the threats to our democracy and our values from emerging technologies, Biden said on Friday.
Joe Biden has put pressure on tech companies by saying that there will be a presidential order on AI security, but the content of it has not yet been presented. According to the New York Times, the presidential order will deal with how to prevent China from taking part in the AI technology being developed.