The White House will host CEOs of top artificial intelligence companies, including Alphabet Inc, Google, and Microsoft, on Thursday to discuss risks and safeguards as the technology catches the attention of governments and lawmakers globally.
Follow Israel Hayom on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram
Generative artificial intelligence has become a buzzword this year, with apps such as ChatGPT capturing the public's fancy, sparking a rush among companies to launch similar products they believe will change the nature of work.
Millions of users have begun testing such tools, which supporters say can make medical diagnoses, write screenplays, create legal briefs, and debug software, leading to growing concern about how the technology could lead to privacy violations, skew employment decisions, and power scams and misinformation campaigns.
"We aim to have a frank discussion about the risks we see in current and near-term AI development," said a senior administration official, speaking on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the matter. "Our North Star here is this idea that if we're going to seize these benefits, we have to start by managing the risks."
Thursday's meeting will include Google's Sundar Pichai, Microsoft's Satya Nadella, OpenAI's Sam Altman, and Anthropic's Dario Amodei along with Vice President Kamala Harris and administration officials including Biden's Chief of Staff Jeff Zients, National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan, Director of the National Economic Council Lael Brainard and Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo.
