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Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo announced the U.S. AI Safety
Institute Consortium (AISIC), which includes OpenAI, Alphabet's
Google, Anthropic and Microsoft along with Facebook-parent Meta
Platforms, Apple, Amazon.com, Nvidia Palantir, Intel, JPMorgan
Chase and Bank of America.
"The U.S. government has a significant role to play in setting
the standards and developing the tools we need to mitigate the
risks and harness the immense potential of artificial
intelligence," Raimondo said in a statement.
The consortium, which also includes BP, Cisco Systems, IBM,
Hewlett Packard, Northop Grumman, Mastercard, Qualcomm, Visa and
major academic institutions and government agencies, will be
housed under the U.S. AI Safety Institute (USAISI).
The group is tasked with working on priority actions outlined in
President Biden’s October AI executive order "including
developing guidelines for red-teaming, capability evaluations,
risk management, safety and security, and watermarking synthetic
content."
Major AI companies last year pledged to watermark AI-generated
content to make the technology safer. Red-teaming has been used
for years in cybersecurity to identify new risks, with the term
referring to U.S. Cold War simulations where the enemy was
termed the "red team."
Biden's order directed agencies to set standards for that
testing and to address related chemical, biological,
radiological, nuclear, and cybersecurity risks.
In December, the Commerce Department said it was taking the
first step toward writing key standards and guidance for the
safe deployment and testing of AI.
The consortium represents the largest collection of test and
evaluation teams and will focus on creating foundations for a
"new measurement science in AI safety," Commerce said.
Generative AI - which can create text, photos and videos in
response to open-ended prompts - has spurred excitement as well
as fears it could make some jobs obsolete, upend elections and
potentially overpower humans and catastrophic effects.
While the Biden administration is pursuing safeguards, efforts
in Congress to pass legislation addressing AI have stalled
despite numerous high-level forums and legislative proposals.
(Reporting by David Shepardson; Editing by Jamie Freed)
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