AI Companies Building ‘Most Powerful’ Models Must Inform Feds, Biden Executive Order States
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/y3wxxj/ai-companies-building-most-powerful-models-must-inform-feds-biden-executive-order-states
The White House unveiled President Biden’s long-awaited executive order on artificial intelligence technologies on Monday, which aims to minimize some risks to the public from AI systems while supporting companies developing the technology.
Since OpenAI’s ChatGPT software took off last year, AI has been quickly adopted in sectors ranging from search engines to Wall Street. Experts have raised serious concerns arising from this AI arms race, ranging from job losses, to financial collapse, to a severe degradation in sources of reliable information as deepfakes proliferate. Even so, the tech industry has loudly championed unfettered development of AI. Lawmakers in Congress recently met behind closed doors with AI creators, including OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and tech investor Marc Andreessen, who recently called regulations slowing AI development “a form of murder.”