President Biden mentioned Tuesday that tech firms have a accountability to make sure their merchandise are protected as issues develop in regards to the dangers that synthetic intelligence poses to society.
In a gathering with science and expertise advisers on the “dangers and alternatives” of synthetic intelligence, Mr. Biden mentioned AI holds potential for addressing “some very tough challenges like illness and local weather change.”
However, he added, “we even have to deal with the potential dangers to our society, to our economic system, to our nationwide safety.”
When requested instantly whether or not “AI is harmful,” Mr. Biden mentioned it “stays to be seen.”
“It might be,” he mentioned, including that tech firms have a accountability “to ensure their merchandise are protected earlier than making them public.”
He mentioned social media has proven the dangers that applied sciences can pose with out the suitable safeguards in place, and once more referred to as on Congress to move laws to require firms to “put well being and security first within the merchandise that they construct.”
A number of outstanding expertise executives, together with Twitter’s Elon Musk and Apple’s Steve Wozniak, have raised alarms amid the discharge of a number of chatbots which have demonstrated beautiful advances within the expertise.
The execs joined different technologists in calling for a six-month pause on additional developments to AI warning that human-competitive intelligence can ‘pose profound dangers to society and humanity.”
