Hello and welcome to Eye on A.I. One of the biggest bits of A.I. news from the past week was the White House’s announcement that it had convinced seven of the leading A.I. companies to voluntarily commit to a number of steps intended to help improve A.I. safety.
The announcement got a lot of attention. But it is important to note that the commitments only apply to models that are more powerful than the current state-of-the-art systems that have been made public, such as Anthropic's Claude 2, OpenAI's GPT-4, and Google's PaLM 2. So the pledges President Joe Biden secured do nothing to ensure that currently available models aren’t used in ways that might cause harm—such as crafting malware or drafting misinformation.
