AI companies will need to start reporting their safety tests to the US government

Posted under: AI technologies
Date: 2024-01-30
AI companies will need to start reporting their safety tests to the US government

The Biden administration will start implementing a new requirement for the developers of major artificial intelligence systems to disclose their safety test results to the government. The White House AI Council is scheduled to meet Monday to review progress made on the executive order that President Joe Biden signed three months ago to manage the fast-evolving technology. Chief among the 90-day goals of the order was a mandate under the Defense Production Act that AI companies share vital information with the Commerce Department, including safety tests. The software companies are committed to a set of categories for the safety tests, but companies do not yet have to comply with a common standard for the tests. The government's National Institute of Standards and Technology will develop a uniform framework for assessing safety as part of the order Biden signed in October. The government has also scaled up the hiring of AI experts and data scientists at federal agencies.

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