• The White House on Friday released a list of initiatives by seven major tech companies aimed at addressing the risks associated with artificial intelligence (AI).
• The companies have promised to focus on responsible AI development centered around the principles of “safety, security and trust,” but experts told the Daily Caller News Foundation that those promises won’t have much impact.
• “Everything will basically continue as normal,” Jake Denton, a researcher at the Heritage Foundation Center for Technology Policy, told DCNF. “This voluntary effort is a no-brainer. There really is no sign of enforcement… This is a potential winning moment for the Biden-Harris administration.

The White House on Friday released a list of seven top tech companies’ pledges to “manage the risks” of artificial intelligence (AI), but experts told the Daily Caller News Foundation that they wouldn’t have a material impact.

Seven big tech companies – Amazon, Anthropic, Google, Inflection, Meta, Microsoft and OpenAI – made immediate “voluntary commitments” to promote responsible AI development, focusing on “three principles that must be fundamental to the future of AI: safety, security and trust.” according to to the White House fact sheet. Experts told the DCNF that such pledges are only symbolic victories or sane starting points with no meaningful effect.

“The industry is moving faster than formal regulation can keep up, so it’s a good place to start,” Samuel Hammond, senior economist at the American Innovation Foundation, told DCNF.

Voluntary efforts include issuing public reports on AI’s “features, limitations, and areas of appropriate and inappropriate use,” such as its impact on “fairness and prejudice,” according to the factsheet. Another effort is to conduct research on preventing AI risks such as “harmful prejudice, discrimination and privacy protection.”

There is also a commitment to development AI A system that can help solve social problems like cancer and climate change, according to the factsheet. (Related: Biden administration forces AI companies to regulate and watermark)

President Biden announced an agreement on responsible innovation in artificial intelligence (AI) development by seven AI giants. The president said the deal will be implemented immediately and focuses on safety, security and trust. pic.twitter.com/bwVaGO2HWg

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Hammond isn’t optimistic that these efforts will be a long-term solution to tackling the risks of AI.

Jake Denton, a researcher at the Heritage Foundation Center for Technology Policy, told the DCNF that such efforts would not have any impact on AI companies.

“Everything will basically continue as normal,” Denton said. “This voluntary effort is a no-brainer. There really is no sign of enforcement… This is a potential winning moment for the Biden-Harris administration.

June 19, the day before Biden opens Silicon Valley round table The president joined AI commentators at a fundraiser hosted by Microsoft Chief Technology Officer Kevin Scott. according to to Reuters. microsoft is a multi-billion dollar backer of OpenAI, makers of the popular AI chatbot ChatGPT.

“This is a clear signal to Americans that Microsoft will decide the fate of their technology,” Denton said. “It is clear that they are in control and the Biden administration is riding on it.”

The Biden administration also Executive order The factsheet says they are calling for bipartisan legislation to “help America lead responsible innovation” on AI.

“I think you’ll see left-wing activity there. They’ll take a bite of an apple and keep going,” Charles Sauer, founder and chairman of the Market Institute, told the DCNF.

Sauer told the DCNF that rather than Big Tech influencing the Biden administration, “it’s more like the government is making these companies stronger.”

“I think what we really need as a country is a separation of technology and the state,” he said. “We need to keep governments from inventing new innovations, and that is how we grow.”

The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy did not immediately respond to the DCNF’s request for comment.

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