Officials in the United States are making efforts to rein in the development of artificial intelligence (AI), as new plans emerge to examine workers' experience with AI surveillance.
According to a Reuters report, White House officials said May 23 that they would ask workers how their employers use AI for monitoring purposes. This comes as federal investments are allocated for the development of the technology.
Regulators in the US plan to hold a listening session to hear such experiences with AI for surveillance, monitoring and evaluation in the workplace. Experts in temporary jobs, researchers and legislators will also participate in the call.
The next listening session comes just weeks after US Vice President Kamala Harris Guest executives from top tech companies to the White House to discuss the dangers of AI.
Nine of the Biden administration's top advisers on science, national security, politics and economics attended, along with the CEOs of OpenAI, Microsoft and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, among others.
Before the meeting, the president of the United States. Joe Biden addressed tech companies imploring them to address the risks of technology.
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On May 4, US officials released standards for key and emerging technologieswhich identified eight sectors within the technology industry that could have a significant impact on the economy in the coming years.
More recently, Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAi who created ChatGPT, testified before Congress in a โlandmarkโ session that focused on the potential threats posed by generative AI.
The US is not alone in taking a regulatory stance on emerging technology. Regulators in the UK recently pledged almost $125 million towards creating a 'safe AI' working group as the country focuses on AI 'readiness'.
Meanwhile, in the European Union, civil servants are in the process of finalizing legislation that could be one of the world's first sets of legal measures and guidelines regulating generative AI tools. hills recent round of deliberations for the EU AI Law included a ban on facial recognition in public spaces and predictive policing tools.
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