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"My
administration is committed to safeguarding Americans' rights
and safety while protecting privacy, to addressing bias and
misinformation, to making sure AI systems are safe before they
are released," Biden said at an event in San Francisco.
Biden met a group of civil society leaders and advocates, who
have previously criticized the influence of major tech
companies, to discuss artificial intelligence.
"I wanted to hear directly from the experts," he said.
Several governments are considering how to mitigate the dangers
of the emerging technology, which has experienced a boom in
investment and consumer popularity in recent months after the
release of OpenAI's ChatGPT.
Biden's meeting on Tuesday included Tristan Harris, executive
director of the Center for Humane Technology, Algorithmic
Justice League founder Joy Buolamwini and Stanford University
Professor Rob Reich.
Regulators globally have been scrambling to draw up rules
governing the use of generative AI, which can create text and
images, and whose impact has been compared to that of the
internet.
Biden has also recently discussed the issue of AI with other
world leaders, including British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak
whose government will later this year hold a first global summit
on artificial intelligence safety. Biden is expected to discuss
the topic with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi during his
ongoing U.S. visit.
European Union lawmakers agreed last week to changes in draft
rules on artificial intelligence proposed by the European
Commission in a bid to set a global standard for a technology
used on everything from automated factories to self-driving cars
to chatbots.
(Reporting by Trevor Hunnicutt in San FranciscoWriting by
Kanishka SinghEditing by Chris Reese, Alistair Bell and Matthew
Lewis)
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