OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai will join the government's artificial intelligence Safety and Security Board, according to tech-leaders-to-serve-on-ai-safety-board-7dc47b78%3Fmod%3De2twd” class=”link rapid-with-clickid etailiffa-link” rel=”nofollow noopener” target=”_blank” data-ylk=”slk:The Wall Street Journal;elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:The Wall Street Journal;elmt:;cpos:1;pos:1;itc:0;sec:content-canvas”>The Wall Street Journal. They are also joined by Nvidia's Jensen Huang, Northrop Grumman's Kathy Warden, and Delta's Ed Bastian, along with other technology and ai industry leaders. The ai board will work with and advise the Department of Homeland Security on how it can safely deploy ai within the country's critical infrastructure. They are also tasked with generating recommendations for power grid operators, transportation service providers and manufacturing plants on how they can protect their systems against potential threats that could arise due to advances in technology.
The Biden administration ordered the creation of an ai safety board last year as part of a broad executive order focused on regulating the development of ai. In it ai/promoting-ai-safety-and-security” rel=”nofollow noopener” target=”_blank” data-ylk=”slk:Homeland Security’s website;cpos:3;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas” class=”link “>Homeland Security website, said the board “includes artificial intelligence experts from the private sector and government who advise the Secretary and the critical infrastructure community.” said the Secretary of Homeland Security, Alejandro Mayorkas the newspaper that the use of ai in critical infrastructure can greatly improve services (it can, for example, speed up the diagnosis of diseases or quickly detect anomalies in power plants), but it carries a significant risk that the agency hopes to minimize with the help of this board. .
That said, one can't help but wonder if these ai technology leaders can provide guidance that isn't primarily intended to serve them and their companies. After all, their work focuses on advancing ai technologies and promoting their use, while the board is intended to ensure that critical infrastructure systems use ai responsibly. However, Mayorkas seems confident that they will do their job correctly, and said the newspaper that technology leaders “understand the mission of this board” and that “it is not a mission that has to do with business development.”
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