White House Gathers A.I. Chief Executives to Discuss Risks

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Source: New York Times

White House Gathers A.I. Chief Executives to Discuss Risks

Leaders from Google, Microsoft, OpenAI and Anthropic will meet Vice President Kamala Harris and other administration officials.

By David McCabe
David McCabe reports on tech policy from Washington.

May 4, 2023
Updated 10:21 a.m. ET

The White House on Thursday will host its first gathering of chief executives of companies building artificial intelligence since a boom in A.I.-powered chatbots has prompted growing calls to regulate the technology.

Vice President Kamala Harris and other administration officials are scheduled to meet with the leaders of Google, Microsoft, OpenAI, the maker of the popular ChatGPT chatbot, and Anthropic, an A.I. start-up, to discuss the technology.

The White House planned to impress upon the companies that they had a responsibility to address the risks of new A.I. developments. “We aim to have a frank discussion of the risks we each see in current and near-term A.I. development, actions to mitigate those risks and other ways we can work together to ensure the American people benefit from advances in A.I. while being protected from its harms,” said Arati Prabhakar, the director of the White House office of science and technology policy, in an invitation to the meeting obtained by The New York Times.

Hours before the meeting, the White House announced that the National Science Foundation plans to spend $140 million on new research centers devoted to A.I. The administration also pledged to release draft guidelines for government agencies to ensure that their use of A.I. safeguards “the American people’s rights and safety,” adding that several A.I. companies had agreed to make their products available for scrutiny in August at a cybersecurity conference.

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Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/04/technology/us-ai-research-regulation.html

[AllaN01Bear]

1. we need to step back from ai and do a loong think. like all tools ai can

be for the benifit of all and or used improperly , can be devistating... laws need to catch up with ai.

[quaint]

2. Too true...

and this technology can definitely be used improperly.

[LudwigPastorius]

3. We're hosed.

The issue of control of Artificial Intelligence is so elusive because we don't know, nor can we know, exactly how deep neural networks arrive at their decisions.

Even if we could know, then comes the problem of instilling human values or human reasoning into these systems. The problem with that is that we seldom agree on what those things even mean.

The advancement of the technology has already outstripped our ability to guide its development.

[honest.abe]

4. There is practically no way to stop or regulate AI development and use.

The technology is now accessible by almost anyone who has a decent computer and understands a bit of programming. Its not like nuclear weapons where it takes enormous resources to be able to create a functional bomb. I think the best we can do is to recognize the problems and learn how to live with it.

[Tree Lady]

5. I watched the A.I. Dilemma on YouTube

and its scary mostly from a security aspect. Making fake ID's, false voices, etc crime will be even easier than it already is.

They also said they think this will be the last democratic election in 2024 because AI is learning at such a intense rate on how to persuade people using all the data collected from social media and search engines that can lead you to what they want you to see.

It is done by top people who helped make google, FB, twitter, instagram, etc and quit when they realized it was out of control.

On their Social Media documentary they said a few years ago regulation has to happen before society falls apart.

White House HAS to do more than talk, they need to regulate and soon or else!!