The Biden administration said on Thursday that leading artificial intelligence companies are among more than 200 entities joining a new U.S. consortium to support the safe development and deployment of generative AI. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo announced the U.S. AI Safety Institute Consortium (AISIC). ""The U.S. government has a significant role to play in setting the standards and developing the tools we need to mitigate the risks and harness the immense potential of artificial intelligence,"" Raimondo said in a statement. The group is tasked with working on priority actions outlined in President Biden’s October AI executive order, ""including developing guidelines for red-teaming, capability evaluations, risk management, safety and security, and watermarking synthetic content."" Major AI companies pledged last year to watermark AI-generated content to make the technology safer.