White House says tech giants have ‘moral’ duty on potential AI dangers
- Biden and Harris meet with the CEOs of top artificial intelligence companies as AI tools gain widespread public interest
- Risks from AI include its potential uses for fraud, with voice clones, deepfake videos and convincingly written messages
The White House on Thursday told the CEOs of US AI giants that they have a “moral” responsibility to protect society from the potential dangers of artificial intelligence.
Vice-President Kamala Harris had summoned the heads of Google, Microsoft, OpenAI and Anthropic to strategise about the impact of AI, afraid that companies are running blindly into technology that could pose serious harms to society.
Harris told the CEOs, which included Sundar Pichai of Google and Satya Nadella of Microsoft, that they have a “moral” duty to safeguard society from AI’s potential dangers.
Companies “must comply with existing laws to protect the American people” as well as “ensure the safety and security of their products,” Harris said in a statement after the talks.
US President Joe Biden also insisted on that point when he briefly dropped by the meeting, telling the assembled CEOs: “What you’re doing has enormous potential and enormous danger.
