Computerworld July 25, 2023
US President Joe Biden’s latest move to wrangle AI and keep Americans safe while also allowing innovation are not enforceable, meaning AI companies still have carte blanche to do what they want.
The “voluntary commitments” from seven leading AI tech companies to help limit safety, security, and trust risks associated with their ever-evolving technologies aren’t worth the paper they could have been written on, according to tech industry experts.
On Friday, US President Joseph R. Biden Jr. said he met with representatives from Amazon, Anthropic, Google, Inflection, Meta, Microsoft, and OpenAI at the White House, and all committed to safety standards when developing AI technologies.
“The Biden-Harris Administration has secured voluntary commitments from these companies to help move toward safe,...