Joe Biden advises tech companies to handle AI threats

The President of the United States, Joe Biden, warned on Tuesday that the safety of artificial intelligence (AI) is still unclear and urged technology companies to confirm the security of their products before exposing them to the public.

At a discussion with science and technology advisors, President Biden admitted that artificial intelligence may be useful in addressing concerns such as sickness and climate change. Yet he emphasized the need to confront potential threats to society, national security, and the economy.

Before exposing their goods to the public, he remarked at the outset of a meeting with the President’s Council of Advisers on Science and Technology that technology businesses must assure product security. When asked about the possible dangers of AI, he said, “That remains to be seen.” The chance exists.”

According to the president, social media has already proven the detrimental influence that strong technology may have without adequate safeguards. Biden said, “Without protections, we see the effect on mental health, self-images, sentiments, and despondency, particularly among young people.”

He reiterated his appeal for the U.S. Congress to pass non-partisan privacy regulations that restrict the personal data collected by technology companies, prevent child-targeted advertising, and make health and safety the priority in product development.

The Center for Artificial Intelligence and Digital Policy, a technology ethics organization, recently urged the U.S. Federal Trade Commission to prevent OpenAI from releasing new commercial versions of GPT-4, a language model whose human-like ability to generate written responses to prompts has both impressed and alarmed users.