AI Companies Including OpenAI, Alphabet, And Meta Platforms Oath To Implement Security Measures

JAKARTA - US President Joe Biden announced that several AI technology companies, including OpenAI, Alphabet, and Meta Platforms, have made voluntary commitments to the White House to implement measures such as putting watermarks on AI-generated content to help make this technology more secure.

"This inauguration is a promising move, but we still have a lot of work to do together," Biden said.

At the event at the White House, Biden expressed growing concerns about the potential artificial intelligence that could be used for disruptive purposes, and stated "we must have a clear and alert view of the threat from new technologies" to US democracy.

The companies - which also include Anthropic, Inflection, Amazon.com, and OpenAI partner Microsoft - pledged to thoroughly test the system before launching it and sharing information on how to reduce risks and invest in cybersecurity.

This move is considered a victory for the Biden administration's efforts to regulate this technology, which has experienced a surge in investment and popularity among consumers.

"We welcome the president's leadership in uniting the tech industry to formulate concrete measures that will help make AI safer, safer, and more beneficial to society," Microsoft said in a blog post on Friday, July 21.

Since the generative AI technology, which uses data to create new content such as the human process of ChatGPT, became very popular this year, legislators around the world are starting to consider how to reduce the dangers of this new technology to national and economic security.

The US itself is currently lagging behind the European Union in overcoming artificial intelligence regulations. In June, EU legislators agreed on a draft set of rules in which systems like ChatGPT should disclose AI-generated content, help distinguish deep-fake images from original images, and ensure protection against illegal content.

The majority of the US Senate, Chuck Schumer, in June demanded "comprehensive legislation" to advance and guarantee protection against artificial intelligence.

Congress is considering a law that would require political advertising to reveal whether AI is used to create images or other content.

Biden, who welcomed the executives of the seven companies at the White House on Friday, said he was also working to develop executive orders and cross-party laws on AI technology.

"We will see more technological changes in the next 10 years, or even in the coming years, than we have seen in the last 50 years. This is really a shocking disclosure to me," Biden said.

As part of these efforts, the seven companies are committed to developing a system to mark all forms of content, from text, images, audio, to videos produced by AI so users will know when this technology is used.

This watermark, which is implanted in content technically, will likely make it easier for users to detect deep-fake images or audio that may display violence that doesn't actually happen, create better scams, or damage a politician's photo to make it look bad.

It is not clear how the watermark will appear in sharing information.

The companies also pledged to focus on protecting user privacy in line with AI developments and ensure that this technology is biased and is not used to discriminate against vulnerable groups. Other commitments include developing AI solutions to scientific issues such as medical research and climate change mitigation