President Biden Has Used ChatGPT

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We learned today that President Joe Biden has used ChatGPT. At least, that’s the White House’s official line.

The White House was quite busy today when it comes to AI. In advanced of a high profile meeting with AI CEOs, they released a fact sheet on “new actions that will further promote responsible American innovation in artificial intelligence (AI) and protect people’s rights and safety.” Those actions include:

• $140M in funding to launch 7 new “National AI Research Institutes” to power “responsible American AI R&D”

• A forthcoming draft policy on guidance for US government use of AI

• (and this is the big one) A Public assessment of existing generative AI systems.

The Administration has secured the commitment of companies including Anthropic, Google, Hugging Face, Microsoft, NVIDIA, OpenAI, and Stability AI to allow their models to be “evaluated thoroughly by thousands of community partners and AI experts.” Their goal is, of course, alignment. Alignment with what? Well, with the “Biden-Harris Administration’s Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights and AI Risk Management Framework” of course.

This all preceded a two-hour meeting between VP Harris, Biden Chief of Staff, National Security Advisor, Secretary of Commerce and Director of the National Economic Council and the CEO’s of Microsoft, Google, OpenAI and Anthropic.

To be honest, not that much about the meeting was disclosed. The White House called it “frank and constructive.” Sam Altman told reporters “we’re surprisingly on the same page about what needs to happen.”

AI Twitter meanwhile wondered why there weren’t any critical voices in the room. Researcher and author Elizabeth Renieris wrote “It strikes me that this meeting would be much more honest & productive with at least one critical AI expert in attendance.”

Whether this meeting was productive or not, there’s no doubting any more whether AI is on the political agenda.

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