Seven companies, eight vague promises

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:

1. The companies commit to internal and external security testing of their AI systems before their release..
2. The companies commit to sharing information across the industry and with governments, civil society and academia on managing AI risks.
3. The companies commit to investing in cybersecurity and insider-threat safeguards to protect proprietary and unreleased model weights.
4. The companies commit to facilitating third-party discovery and reporting of vulnerabilities in their AI systems.
5. The companies commit to developing robust technical mechanisms to ensure that users know when content is AI generated, such as a watermarking system.
6. The companies commit to publicly reporting their AI systems’ capabilities, limitations, and areas of appropriate and inappropriate use.
7. 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.