The Biden administration has announced new voluntary commitments from seven major artificial intelligence (AI) companies, another milestone in the White House’s attempt to get ahead of the fast-moving technology.
“This is pushing the envelope on what companies are doing and raising the standards for safety and security and trust of AI,” a senior White House official told reporters on July 20.
President Joe Biden met with executives of those seven companies at the White House on July 21.
More specifically, he spoke with Brad Smith, president of Microsoft; Kent Walker, president of global affairs at Alphabet; Dario Amodei, co-founder and CEO of Anthropic; Mustafa Suleyman, CEO and founder of Inflection AI; Nick Clegg, president of global affairs at Meta and former deputy prime minister of the United Kingdom; Greg Brockman, co-founder and president of OpenAI; and Adam Selipsky, CEO of Amazon Web Services….