The U.S. government has created a consortium including greater than 200 major firms to ascertain artificial intelligence (AI) safety standards. It’s a government-led organization that differs from the industry's existing voluntary safety pledge, and the administration took motion when the U.S. Congress's laws was delayed.
Reuters reported on the ninth (local time) that the Biden administration announced that greater than 200 firms and institutions were included in a latest U.S. consortium to support the secure development and deployment of generative AI.
In accordance with this, these include big tech firms corresponding to Microsoft (MS), Google, Amazon, Apple, Meta, NVIDIA, Intel, and IBM, in addition to skilled startups corresponding to Open AI, Antropic, Cohere, Hugging Face, and Palantir, JPO Morgan, Various firms, including Bank of America, research institutes, civic groups, academia, and state governments joined in.
They may work along with the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), a part of the U.S. Department of Commerce, to ascertain safety standards for AI. Specifically, it was emphasized that it’s ‘the primary consortium dedicated to AI safety.’
“President Biden has directed us to make use of every tool at our disposal to realize two key goals: setting safety standards and protecting the innovation ecosystem,” said Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo.
Nick Clegg, President of Meta Global Affairs, said, “Progress and responsibility must go together. “Collaboration across industry, government and civil society is crucial to develop common standards for secure and trustworthy AI,” he said. “We’re excited to hitch this consortium and work closely with the AI Safety Institute.” .
The formation of this consortium follows the primary AI-related executive order signed by U.S. President Biden on October 30 last 12 months. On the time, President Biden directed the agency to expedite the event of safety, security and testing standards for AI models and rules for watermarking AI-generated content.
Individually, in July of last 12 months, seven firms, including MS, Google, Meta, Amazon, OpenAI, Antropic, and Inflection AI, announced a voluntary 'AI Safety Pledge', conducting AI safety testing and data sharing, and adding watermarks to AI-generated content. Eight proposals have been presented, including: Then, in September, eight firms, including Nvidia, IBM, Adobe, and Salesforce, joined.
Nevertheless, laws within the U.S. Congress is sluggish. Because the middle of last 12 months, related forums have been held, emphasizing bipartisan cooperation, led by Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer, but within the meantime, the European Union (EU) has agreed on the draft AI law and is barely about to approve it for final approval.
In this case, the launch of this consortium is interpreted as a move to strengthen America's leadership within the AI field.
“Through this, we won’t only contribute to the responsible use of AI, but in addition strengthen America’s position as a worldwide leader in AI,” said John Brennan, head of public sector at Scale AI.
Reporter Lim Da-jun ydj@aitimes.com