US must manage AI risks to society and national security, Biden says as he pushes for privacy protections
- As Biden met with business leaders and experts on Tuesday, he said that he is committed to ‘making sure AI systems are safe before they are released’
- The administration is pushing companies to develop new privacy and security protections for consumers amid an explosion in the use of generative AI
“In seizing this moment, we need to manage the risks to our society, to our economy and our national security,” Biden said in San Francisco on Tuesday. He said he was committed to “making sure AI systems are safe before they are released”.
The president reiterated his calls for Congress to pass bipartisan privacy legislation.
“Social media has already shown us the harm that powerful technology can do without the right safeguards in place. That’s why I said in the State of Union that the Congress needs to pass bipartisan privacy legislation to impose strict limits on personal data collection, ban targeted advertising to our children, and require companies to put health and safety first,” Biden said.
The administration is pushing companies to develop new privacy and security protections for consumers as the use of technologies such as generative AI has exploded in recent months.
Those meeting with Biden included Sal Khan, the CEO of Khan Academy Inc; Common Sense Media CEO Jim Steyer; Tristan Harris, executive director of the Center for Humane Technology; Oren Etzioni, former CEO of the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence; Fei-Fei Li, co-director of Stanford University’s Human-Centered AI Institute; Joy Buolamwini, founder of the Algorithmic Justice League; Jennifer Doudna, a professor of chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley; and Stanford political science professor Rob Reich.
