Top AI brands promise White House to develop AI responsibly

Right now, we’re at the beginning of a new age of technology with artificial intelligence. This new age brings with it visions of hope and prophecies of doom. Thus, The US White House asked top AI brands to promise to develop AI responsibly.

Right now, all of the dangers of AI are still hypothetical. The thought of millions of writers, musicians, artists, executives, and developers being jobless because of AI automation is still just a thought. However, the government is trying to stave off that reality. The government is looking into OpenAI over how it uses and obtains data for ChatGPT. Also, Senator Casey introduced new bills to stop “Robot bosses” from happening.

Top AI brands promise to develop AI responsibly

According to The Verge, The White House will bring in Google, Meta, OpenAI, Amazon, Inflection, Anthropic, and Microsoft on Friday. During the meeting, the White House will issue a series of requests for these companies to follow. They include but aren’t limited to, developing a watermarking system, investing in cybersecurity, and discrimination research.

These address some of the issues with AI at this point. People generate all sorts of content and pass it off as though someone with actual talent made them. It’d be nice to have a watermarking system to know when something has been AI-generated.

Also, AI isn’t exactly clean from generating discriminatory content. That could lead to massive trouble on the corporate level. When it comes to cybersecurity, it’s obvious why that’s important. We don’t know how these companies are handling the data that they collect.

These are promises, not policies

While the companies agreed to meet with the White House, these are voluntary promises that the companies are making. This means that they’re not technically obligated to stick to them. There won’t be any punishment if they fail to live up to the promises.

Not to be cynical, but some of these companies struggle to obey certain guidelines even when they’re legally obligated to. It’s hard to believe that these companies will avoid breaking promises that seem to have no more weight than a pinky swear.

In any case, let’s just hope that these companies do stand by these promises. We’re just now realizing some of the dangers of AI.