President Joe Biden on Monday issued an executive order that sets the standard on safety, security and transparency of artificial intelligence systems, requiring companies developing them to share details of the systems’ safety tests with the U.S. government.
Companies that train AI through so-called foundational models, which may pose national security and public health risks depending on how they’re deployed, must reveal the safety results to U.S. agencies, the order states.
Foundational models refer to AI systems that ingest large quantities of data and are then capable of being deployed in a wide variety of applications. Many AI systems that use natural language processing, and those suggesting the creation of new chemical compounds, use foundational models.
