On May 4th, the White House Administration, including both President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, met various CEOs of companies currently at the forefront of artificial intelligence innovation. The goal of this meeting, according to the official meeting readout, was to discuss the advancement of AI as well as the associated risks. The CEOs chosen to be a part of this discussion were Sam Altman of OpenAI, Dario Amodei of Anthropic, Satya Nadella of Microsoft and Sundar Pichai of both Alphabet (Google).
The Biden Administration targeted three specific areas in the discussion including the need for transparency from companies in the public and private sector, the necessity to evaluate the security of AI systems, and how to ensure AI systems can be protected from outside attacks. In addition to these concerns, the administration also announced plans to support AI development both financially as well as through regulatory means.
