US President Joe Biden Tuesday mentioned the dangers of synthetic intelligence (AI) to nationwide safety and the economic system must be addressed, including that his administration would search recommendation from consultants on the topic.
“My administration is committed to safeguarding Americans’ rights and safety while protecting privacy, to addressing bias and misinformation, to making sure AI systems are safe before they are released,” Reuters reported quoting Biden as saying at an occasion in San Francisco.
Biden mentioned he was dedicated to “ensuring AI methods are secure earlier than they’re launched.”
The US president reiterated his calls for Congress to pass bipartisan privacy legislation.
“Social media has already shown us the harm that powerful technology can do without the right safeguards in place. That’s why I said in the State of Union that the Congress needs to pass bipartisan privacy legislation to impose strict limits on personal data collection, ban targeted advertising to our children, and require companies to put health and safety first,” Bloomberg reported quoting Biden.
The president additional mentioned Vice President Kamala Harris will subsequent month convene civil rights and shopper safety teams to debate AI considerations.
Several governments throughout the globe are contemplating find out how to mitigate the risks of the rising expertise, which has skilled a growth in funding and shopper recognition in latest months after the discharge of ChatGPT by OpenAI.
Regulators throughout the globe have been gearing up to attract guidelines governing the usage of generative AI, which might create textual content and pictures, the influence of which proponents examine to that from the arrival of the web.
The Federal Trade Commission additionally mentioned it’s monitoring the usage of synthetic intelligence instruments.
The US president is prone to talk about the subject with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi throughout his ongoing US go to.
Recently, the US president had mentioned the difficulty with different world leaders, together with British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak who was on a state go to to the United States. The British authorities, who’s organising first international summit on synthetic intelligence security later this yr, agreed with the US authorities to work collectively on AI security.
“I don’t think ever in the history of human endeavour has there been as fundamental potential technological change as is presented by artificial intelligence. It is staggering,” Biden had added.
(With inputes from businesses)
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Updated: 21 Jun 2023, 03:28 AM IST
