Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and Meta join forces to enhance AI safety and security
The White House has received voluntary commitments from AI businesses including OpenAI, Alphabet, and Meta Platforms to implement safety measures like watermarking AI-generated content, President Joe Biden said in a statement on Friday 21st July 2023.
“We still have a lot of work to do as a team, but these agreements are a good first step,” said Biden. And also at a White House event, Biden stated that “we must be clear-eyed and vigilant about the threats from emerging technologies” to American democracy in response to mounting concerns about the potential for artificial intelligence to be exploited for disruptive purposes.
The seven businesses agreed to work together to create a system to “watermark” all types of content, including text, photographs, audio files, and videos created with AI so that consumers can tell when the technology has been utilised.
This watermark, which is technically incorporated into the content, is supposedly going to make it simpler for users to identify deep-fake images or audio that may, for example, depict violence that hasn’t happened, improve a fraud, or alter a photo of a politician to cast the person in an unfavorable light.
It’s unclear how the information exchange process will make the watermark visible.
Additionally, the firms committed to concentrating on user privacy protection while AI is developed, as well as ensuring that the technology is neutral and not used to discriminate against weaker groups. Other promises include the development of AI solutions for scientific problems such as climate change mitigation and medical research.
Since generative AI, which uses data to produce fresh material like ChatGPT’s human-sounding language, became so well-liked this year, politicians all over the world have started thinking about how to lessen the risks the cutting-edge technology poses to the economy and national security.
EU legislators approved a set of draft regulations in June, and they require platforms like ChatGPT to reveal AI-generated information, assist in separating so-called deep-fake photos from real ones, and provide safeguards against illegal content.
