AMIGO-MA bids well for Biden
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Top tech firms commit to AI safeguards amid fears over pace of change … Guardian…
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Top players in the development of artificial intelligence, including Amazon, Google, Meta
Among the guidelines brokered by the Biden administration are watermarks for AI content to make it easier to identify and third-party testing of the technology that will try to spot dangerous flaws.
The president said AI brings “incredible opportunities”, as well as risks to society and economy. The agreement, he said, would underscore three fundamental principles – safety, security and trust.
The White House said seven US companies had agreed to the voluntary commitments, which are meant to ensure their AI products are safe before they release them.
The voluntary commitments are not legally binding, but may create a stopgap while more comprehensive action is developed.
A surge of commercial investment in generative AI tools that can write convincingly human-like text and churn out new images and other media has brought public fascination as well as concern about their ability to trick people and spread disinformation, among other dangers.
The tech companies agreed to eight measures:
· Using watermarking on audio and visual content to help identify content generated by AI.
· Allowing independent experts to try to push models into bad behavior – a process known as “red-teaming”.
· Sharing trust and safety information with the government and other companies.
· Investing in cybersecurity measures.
· Encouraging third parties to uncover security vulnerabilities.
· Reporting societal risks such as inappropriate uses and bias.
· Prioritizing research on AI’s societal risks.
· Using the most cutting-edge AI systems, known as frontier models, to solve society’s greatest problems.
· The voluntary commitments are meant to be an immediate way of addressing risks ahead of a longer-term push to get Congress to pass laws regulating the technology.
· The Senate majority leader, Chuck Schumer, has said he will introduce legislation to regulate AI.
But some experts and upstart competitors worry that the type of regulation being floated could be a boon for deep-pocketed first-movers led by OpenAI, Google and Microsoft, as smaller players are elbowed out by the high cost of making their AI systems known as large language models adhere to regulatory strictures.
The UN secretary general, António Guterres, recently said the United Nations was “the ideal place” to adopt global standards and appointed a board that will report back on options for global AI governance by the end of the year.
The United Nations chief also said he welcomed calls from some countries for the creation of a new UN body to support global efforts to govern AI, inspired by such models as the International Atomic Energy Agency or the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
The White House said on Friday that it had already consulted on the voluntary commitments with a number of countries.
US-India ties: President Joe Biden's Science Adviser calls for AI collaboration with India… Mint… 22 July
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The Science Advisor to President Joe Biden, Arati Prabhakar [engagement@ostp.
on Friday said that the United States and like-minded countries including India need to work together for
shaping the course of artificial intelligence.
MY TAKE :
My 55 Blogs on Artificial Intelligence ( as of 22 July 2023 )
With regards,
Hemen Parekh
www.hemenparekh.ai / 23 July 2023
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Added on 24 July 2023 :
Tech companies say no to more laws, statutory body to regulate AI / ET / 24 July
This comes after the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) released a 138-page report with recommendation on 'Leveraging Artificial Intelligence and Big Data in Telecommunication Sector' on Thursday.
TRAI has suggested that an independent statutory authority, ‘Artificial Intelligence and Data Authority of India ,’ be established immediately for development of responsible AI and regulation of use cases in India
The development and deployment of AI needs oversight to ensure responsible use and scale up of adoption, but we strongly recommend against creating more laws or statutory authority to regulate AI," Ashish Aggarwal, vice president and head of public policy at Nasscom, told ET
A disjointed and disproportionate regulatory intervention can impede the growth of the evolving AI ecosystem in India and cause avoidable uncertainty, he argued
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