Wed 05 Apr 2023:
Artificial intelligence (AI) “could be” dangerous, according to US President Joe Biden, but it remains to be seen how the technology will affect society.
Biden stated at the start of a meeting with science and technology advisers on Tuesday that technology companies have a responsibility to ensure the safety of their products before they are released.
“Tech companies have a responsibility, in my view, to make sure their products are safe before making them public,” Biden said at the opening of a meeting of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology.
Asked if AI was dangerous, Biden said it “remains to be seen” but “it could be”.
Biden said AI could help tackle challenges like disease and climate change but that developers of the technology would also have to address “potential risks to our society, to our economy, to our national security”.
The president stated that the effects of social media on the mental health of young people demonstrated the harm that new technologies can cause if safeguards are not in place.
Biden’s comments come amid a growing debate over how to regulate AI, with some prominent voices calling for a halt in AI development until safeguards can be put in place.
In an open letter published last month, a number of tech leaders, including Tesla founder Elon Musk and Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, called for a halt to AI rollout due to the technology’s “profound risks to society and humanity.”
The latter was in response to the release of GPT-4, the successor to the ground-breaking AI chatbot ChatGPT.
The newer platform, according to GPT-4’s California-based developer OpenAI, is capable of “human-level performance” in some situations, such as passing the bar exam with a score in the top 10 percent of candidates.
Italy was the first Western nation to outlaw ChatGPT last week after its data protection watchdog declared that there appeared to be “no legal basis” for the program’s extensive data collection.
Legislators in the 27-nation European Union are negotiating rules to control the use of the technology.
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