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White House Unveils Voluntary Commitments to AI Safety from Leading AI Labs

Last Friday, the White House announced a series of voluntary commitments from seven of the world's premier AI labs. Amazon, Anthropic, Google, Inflection, Meta, Microsoft, and OpenAI pledged to uphold these commitments, which are non-binding and pertain only to forthcoming "frontier models" superior to currently available AI systems. The White House also notes that the Biden-Harris Administration is developing an executive order alongside these voluntary commitments.

The commitments are timely and technically well-informed, demonstrating the ability of federal policymakers to respond capably and quickly to AI risks. The Center for AI Safety supports these commitments as a precedent for cooperation on AI [...]

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(00:11) White House Unveils Voluntary Commitments to AI Safety from Leading AI Labs

(05:05) Lessons from Oppenheimer

(10:38) Links

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First published:
July 25th, 2023

Source:
https://newsletter.safe.ai/p/ai-safety-newsletter-16

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