OpenAI, Microsoft, Meta, Google, Amazon, Anthropic, and Inflection make voluntary AI promises to the White House, like cybersecurity investment and watermarking
White House Pranav Dixit / Business Today : OpenAI, Google, Meta, Amazon and others pledge to watermark AI content for safety Ryan Morrison / Tech Monitor : White House secures AI safety commitment Ashley King / Digital Music News : White House Secures Voluntary AI Safety Commitments from Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft, OpenAI Todd Spangler / Variety : Google, Meta, OpenAI, Other Tech Companies Promise to Comply With White House's AI Safety Framework to ‘Protect Americans From Harm and Discrimination’ Rob Garver / Voice of America : AI Firms Strike Deal With White House on Safety Guidelines Katyanna Quach / The Register : Fear not, White House chatted to OpenAI and pals, and they promised to make AI safe Winston Cho / The Hollywood Reporter : Tech Giants Agree to Self-Police AI In Framework That Has No Teeth Jon Victor / The Information : AI Companies Adopt Safeguards After White House Pressure Gabriel Rivera / Insider : How can you tell if an image is AI-generated? Soon, there'll likely be a watermark. Conor Cawley / Tech.co : Big Tech Firms Have Agreed to AI Rules from White House Francisco Pires / Tom's Hardware : AI Companies Promise Watermarked Data, Additional Safety Measures Marianne Kolbasuk McGee / DeviceSecurity.io : 7 Tech Firms Pledge to White House to Make AI Safe, Secure Markus Kasanmascheff / WinBuzzer : Big-Techs and White House Announce Pledge for Responsible AI Development Thomas Barrabi / New York Post : Meta, Google, OpenAI commit to White House pact on responsible AI development ChinaTechNews.com : The White House-brokered AI pledge lacked detail on key issues Makena Kelly / The Verge : Meta, Google, and OpenAI reveal their safety plans following White House summit Maria Deutscher / SiliconANGLE : OpenAI, tech giants join White House initiative to address AI risks Nickie Louise / Tech Startups : The end of AI content creation? OpenAI, Google, and others pledge to watermarking AI content for safety, White House says Mark Hachman / PCWorld : Google, Meta, Microsoft, OpenAI and more agree to voluntary AI safeguards Adam Clark / MarketWatch : White House AI Deal: What Big Tech Pledged—and the Biggest Omissions Jai Hamid / Cryptopolitan : Major US tech firms make AI promises to the White House Jason Nelson / Decrypt : OpenAI, Google, Microsoft Promise White House to Keep AI Safe Observer : Top AI Executives Agree to White House Safeguards Dark Reading : White House, Big Tech Ink Commitments to Secure AI J. Jennings Moss / Silicon Valley Business Journal : White House secures responsible AI commitments from tech titans, key AI startups Thom Holwerda / OSnews : Watermarks coming to AI content as Big Tech vows to prevent fraud, deception Nadeem Sarwar / SlashGear : Google, OpenAI And Others Just Made A Huge AI Safety Promise To The White House Sharon Goldman / VentureBeat : White House gets AI firms to agree to voluntary safeguards, but not new regulations Anita Schjøll Abildgaard / insideBIGDATA : The White House Meets with 7 Big Tech Companies - Releases Commitments on Managing AI Cybersecurity Dive : White House secures safety commitments from 7 AI companies The Guardian : Top tech firms commit to AI safeguards amid fears over pace of change Wall Street Journal : White House Says Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft Agree to AI Safeguards Arthur Brown / Android Headlines : Top AI brands promise White House to develop AI responsibly Matthias Bastian / The Decoder : AI Labs pledge voluntary commitments for safe, secure, and transparent AI development The Hill : Watch live: Biden delivers remarks on artificial intelligence Robert Hart / Forbes : Tech Giants Make ‘Voluntary’ Pledge To Develop Responsible AI—Including OpenAI And Google—White House Says Vish Gain / Silicon Republic : Major AI makers commit to watermark their content SecurityWeek : Tech Titans Promise Watermarks to Expose AI Creations Paul Ausick / 24/7 Wall St. : Morning Blast: Biden, Tech Agree on AI Development Standards Stephen E. Arnold / Beyond Search : Silicon Valley and Its Busy, Busy Beavers Associated Press : Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft and other tech firms agree to AI safeguards set by the White House PC Gamer : Leading AI companies promise the President they will behave, honest Matt Growcoot / PetaPixel : AI Firms Will Pledge to Watermark AI Images in Meeting With the President Rheilweil / FedScoop : OpenAI, Meta and other tech firms sign onto White House AI commitments Taylor Soper / GeekWire : Microsoft, Amazon, other tech companies make commitment with White House for responsible AI Cat Zakrzewski / Washington Post : Top tech firms sign White House pledge to identify AI-generated images Mack DeGeurin / Gizmodo : Top AI Companies to Meet With Biden, Commit to Third-Party Testing and Watermarking Channel NewsAsia : OpenAI, Google, others pledge to watermark AI content for safety -White House Roll Call : Companies have pledged safe AI development, White House says LinkedIn: Nathaniel Fick : Today, the White House announces voluntary actions agreed to by key AI companies focused on ensuring safety, security, and trust in the most powerful foundation models. … Rachel Gruner : Today, Google will join President Biden and leading AI companies to advance a set of industry commitments promoting responsible AI innovation. … Karan Bhatia : Google is proud to join leading AI companies agreeing on commitments to promote responsible AI innovation. … Tanya Dua : The U.S. is moving faster on AI than any other technology in recent history. But while today's news is notable, “voluntary commitments” usually don't go far enough in mitigating actual risk. … Vasu Jakkal : AI is one of the most consequential technologies of our generation and will be key in helping everyone achieve more. … Eric Horvitz : Excited about a landmark collaborative effort aimed at safe and secure AI, with an eye on the impressive upside to leveraging advances in AI. … Simon Mehdian-Staffell : Big news and a significant step in AI governance... Today Microsoft along with other leading AI companies are supporting a set of commitments crafted … Mike Rayo, PhD : OK, so there will “safeguards” on AI, and those safeguards will include (among other things) a pledge to do research on algorithm bias, discrimination, and invasion of privacy. … Roderick Mann : The word to focus on is ‘voluntary.’ When our Congress is displeased with mega-banks or big tech the drill is to ‘invite’ the CEO's to appear publicly … Rajesh Kandaswamy : Today, the White House announced that they have voluntary pledges from many top AI companies, to help ensure the security and ethical use of AI tools. … Eric Horvitz : Impressed by a White House led effort to seek voluntary commitments aimed at addressing AI risks, while keeping on an eye on the impressive possibilities to harness the technology for good. … Sathish Muthukrishnan : I am thrilled with this news! Right step to safeguard the use of AI! — consumers must have the ability to identify AI generated or AI provided service … Mavanee Anderson : The safeguards these A.I. companies have willingly agreed to should allay most fears and allow the continuing development of safe and secure tools that will make our lives and jobs easier. … Mastodon: Congressman Don Beyer / @RepDonBeyer@mas.to : Today's announcement of an agreement to establish industry standards in AI development is a helpful step forward on AI in the short term. — In the long term, history has shown we will need more than voluntary commitments from industry leaders. … Greg W. / @GW@newsie.social : 7 A.I. Companies Agree to Safeguards After Pressure From the White House — Amazon, Google and Meta are among the companies that announced the new commitments on Friday as they race to outdo each other with versions of artificial intelligence. … Daniel Nazer / @danielnazer@mastodon.social : Regulation in the EU: Here are 1200 pages of mostly pointless rules with a couple of vaguely meaningful things buried in there somewhere. — Regulation in the USA: The giant corporations promised they would be nice to us. — https://www.whitehouse.gov/... Emily M. Bender / @emilymbender@dair-community.social : Okay, aside from the fact that we need real regulation, not toothless “voluntary commitments” that they're only going to “start” working on, I'm super curious about the collection of companies involved here. — How were they chosen? Is the phrasing “top companies” coming from the white house, or just this reporter? … Twitter: Mustafa Suleyman / @mustafasuleymn : Today we're proud to announce that working alongside the White House, we are partnering with other major AI labs, to take a proactive and precautionary approach to the development of the very largest AI models. This announcement is a small but positive first step, but let's... Ingrid / @ingridlunden : Quite wild thing from the past is that this is the same person who wrote FB's first content moderation policy, and in his early days he seemed to be very much among those who really leaned into ‘free speech’ (versus moderating things like hate speech). Ingrid / @ingridlunden : Feels like bad timing for OpenAI given how so much of the convo right now is precisely about stuff like trust and safety. Willner had not been with the company for very long, just 1.5 years. Wonder who will take on this role — arguably one of the most critical right now. Adam Kovacevich / @adamkovac : Huh? [image] Patrick Hedger / @pat_hedger : Hey remember how some of us pointed out that vague definitions of AI in new legislation could be used to backwards regulate older technology? [White House official: “Social media, which is a form of AI aimed at vulnerable audiences, has shown us the harm that powerful technology can do without the right safeguards in place."] Kyle Russell / @kylebrussell : .@BarackObama join OpenAI Hamza Shaban / @hshaban : “The agreement says that the companies will commit to internal and external security testing of their systems, and that they will share information across industries and governments, as well as academia, to help reduce AI risks.” https://finance.yahoo.com/... Dan Ives / @divestech : The White House AI plan announced this morning we applaud and like the self regulation strategy for Big Tech in this AI arms race. As we have seen with black eye after black eye from Khan and the FTC against Big Tech, this is the better route with AI in the US in our opinion 🏆 Mustafa Suleyman / @mustafasuleymn : Looking forward to discussing these great first steps on AI safety with @POTUS today at the @WhiteHouse https://www.nytimes.com/... Marietje Schaake / @marietjeschaake : White House has key tech companies sign up to voluntary steps towards safe, secure & trustworthy AI. Let's hope this ‘first step’ will lead to less self-regulation and more democratic governance with indep. oversight, transparency, accountability soon ↘️ https://www.whitehouse.gov/... Andrew Curran / @andrewcurran_ : The White House has secured voluntary commitments from seven AI companies to manage AI risks. Press announcement will be made later today. [image] Noah Kulwin / @nkulw : White House Continues Doing Marketing For Corporate Donors; “Who gives a fuck that China and others don't think AI has much there there” [image] Gary Marcus / @garymarcus : Important agreement btwn WH & AI leaders. Key omission: a requirement that companies disclose their data sets. As a society, we must insist on full data transparency, to compensate content creators, to combat bias, and to discern limits on models. https://news.bloomberglaw.com/ ... Brad Smith / @bradsmi : By moving quickly, the @WhiteHouse's commitments create a foundation to help ensure the promise of AI stays ahead of its risks. We welcome the @POTUS's leadership in bringing the tech industry together to hammer out concrete steps that will help make AI safer, more secure, and... Jonathan Lemire / @jonlemire : The Biden administration says it has reached a deal with big tech companies to put more guardrails around artificial intelligence as part of its efforts to rein in misinformation and other risks of the rapidly growing technology https://www.wsj.com/... Kate Crawford / @katecrawford : The White House got voluntary commitments from tech companies to self-manage AI risks. Interesting notes include: AI watermarks, not disclosing model weights, having external audits, and prioritizing research on societal risks. Much weaker than the EU. https://www.whitehouse.gov/... Karl Bode / @karlbode : phew, problem solved https://www.theverge.com/... @nullr0ute : Does anyone actually think they will actually keep their promise? https://www.theverge.com/... Ken Thomas / @kthomasdc : The Biden administration says it has reached a deal with big tech companies to put more guardrails around artificial intelligence @SabrinaSiddiqui @dseetharaman https://www.wsj.com/... Tom Warren / @tomwarren : Microsoft, Google, OpenAI, and others have voluntarily agreed to a series of asks from the White House to address many of the risks posed by AI https://www.theverge.com/... Threads: Donie O'Sullivan / @doniecnn : From the White House / AI companies commitment list. What practical form will these watermarks take? Oliver Darcy / @oliverdarcy : This is so silly. Tom Warren / @tomwarrenuk : Microsoft, Google, OpenAI, and others have voluntarily agreed to a series of asks from the White House to address many of the risks posed by AI... See also Mediagazer