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White House Deputy Chief of Staff Bruce Reed, who will convene
the council meeting Monday, said in a statement the federal
government had made significant progress in the prior 90 days on
AI, saying Biden's "directive to us is move fast and fix
things."
The White House said nine government agencies - including
Defense, Transportation, Treasury, and Health and Human Services
- submitted risk assessments to the Department of Homeland
Security required under Biden's order.
At the same time, efforts in Congress to pass legislation in
Congress addressing AI have stalled despite numerous high-level
forums and legislative proposals.
On Friday, the Biden administration said it was proposing
requiring U.S. cloud companies to determine whether foreign
entities are accessing U.S. data centers to train AI models
through "know your customer" rules.
"We can't have non-state actors or China or folks who we don’t
want accessing our cloud to train their models," U.S. Commerce
Secretary Gina Raimondo told Reuters Friday. "We use export
controls on chips. Those chips are in American cloud data
centers so we also have to think about closing down that avenue
for potential malicious activity."
Last month, Raimondo said Commerce would not allow Nvidia "to
ship is the most sophisticated, highest-processing-power AI
chips, which would enable China to train their frontier models."
Biden's executive order invokes the Defense Production Act to
require developers of AI systems that pose risks to U.S.
national security, the economy, public health or safety to share
the results of safety tests with the U.S. government before they
are publicly released.
The Commerce Department plans to soon send those survey requests
to companies. Raimondo told Reuters companies will have 30 days
to respond.
"Any company that doesn't want to comply is a red flag for me,"
she said.
Top cloud providers include Amazon.com's AWS, Alphabet's Google
Cloud and Microsoft's Azure unit.
(Reporting by David Shepardson; Editing by Stephen Coates)
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