Biden administration seeks input on AI safety measures

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President Joe Bidens administration wants stronger measures to test the safety of artificial intelligence tools such as ChatGPT before they are publicly released, though it hasnt decided if the government will have a role in doing the vetting...

The U.S. Commerce Department on Tuesday said it will spend the next 60 days fielding opinions on the possibility of AI audits, risk assessments and other measures that could ease consumer concerns about these new systems.There is a heightened level of concern now, given the pace of innovation, that it needs to happen responsibly, said Assistant Commerce Secretary Alan Davidson, administrator of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration...

The Biden administration also last year unveiled a set of far-reaching goals aimed at averting harms caused by the rise of AI systems, but that was before the release of ChatGPT, from San Francisco startup OpenAI, and similar products from Microsoft and Google led to wider awareness of the capabilities of the latest AI tools that can generate human-like passages of text, as well as new images and video...

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