Leading AI Companies Engage in a Visit to the White House for Making 'Voluntary' Safety Pledges
July 21 2023
The Biden administration has secured “voluntary commitments” from seven major AI developers including: OpenAI, Google, Meta, Microsoft, Amazon, Anthropic, and Inflection, in anticipation of a future Executive Order. These commitments encompass shared safety and transparency goals such as conducting internal and external security tests of AI systems, sharing information on AI risks, investing in cybersecurity, facilitating third-party vulnerability reporting, developing AI-generated content marking, evaluating AI systems’ capabilities and limitations, researching societal risks, and helping address major societal challenges. These commitments are currently non-binding but an incoming Executive Order could enforce new rules for compliance.
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What does it mean?
- Executive Order: A directive issued by the President of the United States that manages operations of the federal government. The legal or constitutional authority for executive orders comes from the Article Two, Section One of the Constitution.
- Third-party vulnerability reporting: This is when a person or organization that is not affiliated with the company finds a security weakness in the AI system and reports it to the company.
- Non-binding: This term is used to describe an agreement or decision that is not legally enforceable. They are often preliminary agreements that can lead to enforceable contracts down the line.