The president of the United States, Joe Biden, affirmed on Tuesday that the security of artificial intelligence (AI) is still uncertain, and he stressed that tech companies need to make sure their products are secure before releasing them to the public.
During a meeting with science and technology advisers, Biden acknowledged that AI could be beneficial in addressing problems like disease and climate change. However, she stressed the importance of addressing potential risks to society, national security and the economy.
At the start of a meeting with the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, he said that technology companies must ensure that their products are secure before releasing them to the public. When asked about the potential dangers of AI, he replied: โIt hasn't been determined yet. There's a chance."
According to the president, social networks have already demonstrated the negative impact that powerful technologies can have in the absence of adequate measures to protect against them. โIn the absence of guarantees, we see the impact on mental health and self-image and feelings and hopelessness, especially among young people,โ Biden said.
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He reiterated his call for the US Congress to pass nonpartisan privacy laws that limit the personal data collected by technology companies, ban advertising directed at children, and prioritize health and safety in the development of products.
The Center for Artificial Intelligence and Digital Policy, a tech ethics organization, recently urged the US Federal Trade Commission. to prevent OpenAI releasing new commercial versions of GPT-4, a language model that has impressed and alarmed users due to its human-like ability to create written responses to prompts.
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