In July this year, representatives from seven technology giants: Amazon, Anthropic, Google, Inflection, Meta, Microsoft and OpenAI met with the Biden-Harris administration to discuss the responsible development of artificial intelligence. Today, the White House announced that eight more technology companies have voluntarily participated in AI risk efforts.
Adobe, IBM, NVIDIA, Palantir, Stability, Salesforce, Scale and Cohere join existing signatories of President Biden's proposed principles. The pledges require signatory companies to take steps such as watermarking or labeling AI-generated media to let people know it was not created by humans.
AI companies also commit to promoting fairness, non-discrimination, transparency, privacy and security when working with AI.
White House chief of staff Jeff Zients praised more companies for joining the effort and said Biden has made harnessing the benefits of artificial intelligence while managing its risks a top priority.
Today, these eight leading AI companies promise:
The companies pledge to conduct internal and external security testing of AI systems before they are released.
The companies have committed to sharing information about managing AI risks across industry and with government, civil society and academia.
The companies have committed to investing in cybersecurity and insider threat safeguards to protect proprietary and unreleased model weights.
The companies pledge to make it easier for third parties to discover and report vulnerabilities in their artificial intelligence systems.
The two companies pledged to develop powerful technical mechanisms to ensure users know that content is generated by artificial intelligence, such as watermarking systems.
The companies have committed to publicly reporting on the capabilities, limitations, and areas of appropriate and inappropriate use of their AI systems.
The companies pledged to prioritize research into the social risks AI systems may pose, including avoiding harmful bias and discrimination and protecting privacy.
These companies promise to develop and deploy advanced artificial intelligence systems to help solve society's biggest challenges.
However, many people are worried about the rise of artificial intelligence services. The voluntary nature of these commitments is seen as a temporary solution.
At the end of August, Microsoft Chairman and Executive Vice President Brad Smith expressed support for this, calling for the development of a "regulatory plan" to ensure that artificial intelligence remains under human control. Additionally, the company released a blueprint for how it believes artificial intelligence should be governed.