Seven companies, eight vague promises
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3 min readJul 23, 2023
The White House has brought together seven companies engaged in the development of AI and generative algorithms: Amazon, Anthropic, Google, Inflection, Meta, Microsoft and OpenAI, to announce their joint commitment to eight very broadly worded principles:
- The companies commit to internal and external security testing of their AI systems before their release..
- The companies commit to sharing information across the industry and with governments, civil society and academia on managing AI risks.
- The companies commit to investing in cybersecurity and insider-threat safeguards to protect proprietary and unreleased model weights.
- The companies commit to facilitating third-party discovery and reporting of vulnerabilities in their AI systems.
- The companies commit to developing robust technical mechanisms to ensure that users know when content is AI generated, such as a watermarking system.
- The companies commit to publicly reporting their AI systems’ capabilities, limitations, and areas of appropriate and inappropriate use.
- The companies commit to prioritizing research on the societal risks that AI systems can pose, including on avoiding harmful bias and discrimination, and protecting privacy.