United States: the risks related to artificial intelligence mentioned at the White House
Sundar Pichai, CEO of Alphabet (Google), and Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, from left to right, upon their arrival at the White House, May 4, 2023. AP - Evan Vucci
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The tech giants were invited to the White House on Thursday, May 4, to talk about artificial intelligence (AI), a technology currently unregulated and that Washington cares about. To talk about it, the leaders of Google, Microsoft, Anthropic and OpenAI were received for two hours by Vice President Kamala Harris, who did not fail to call them to caution.
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With our correspondent in Miami, David Thomson
Big names in the tech world were invited to the White House on May 4: Sundar Pichai, boss of Google, Satya Nadella, that of Microsoft, but also Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, the start-up creator of the famous ChatGPT with dazzling success. Recently, Sam Altman was the apostle of a future where artificial intelligence would be everywhere, "smarter than men" in his words. And this future fascinates as much as it worries, even in Washington.
That's why these tech giants were invited to the White House and received by someone who knows them well for the most part: the Vice President of the United States, Kamala Harris, former senator from California, is indeed from San Francisco, heart of Silicon Valley.
Together, they talked about development, but also regulation. Because currently, the control of AI is left to companies alone. "Our goal is to have a frank discussion about the current and near-term risks of artificial intelligence," the White House said on its invitation card.
Kamala Harris called on the big bosses to face her to a "moral " duty to protect against the dangers of this technology: "As I have communicated to the CEOs of companies at the forefront of American innovation in AI, the private sector has an ethical, moral and legal duty to ensure the safety and security of its products.
»The Biden administration is currently working on a $140 million plan and is considering ways to better regulate AI. And this, while encouraging this technology in full development.
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