WASHINGTON: The chief executives of OpenAI, Microsoft and Google are among the many high-profile members of a brand new federal board created to advise the US authorities on the “secure and safe” growth of synthetic intelligence.
The brand new advisory board will assist authorities fight AI-related disruptions which will “influence nationwide or financial safety, public well being, or security,” the Division of Homeland Safety (DHS) stated in an announcement launched Friday.
President Joe Biden directed division Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas to arrange the 22-member board.
Mayorkas stated that whereas AI is a transformative software, “it presents actual dangers.”
“The Board will assist DHS keep forward of evolving threats posed by hostile nation-state actors and reinforce our nationwide safety,” the assertion stated.
AI could also be utilized by unfriendly forces to allow bigger scale, quicker assaults towards targets like pipelines, railways and different essential infrastructure, it stated.
“Synthetic Intelligence is essentially the most transformative expertise of our time, and we should guarantee it’s deployed safely and responsibly,” Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella stated within the assertion.
Different high-powered members named to the board embrace the CEOs of Adobe, Alphabet, Superior Micro Units, Cisco, IBM, Nvidia, Delta Airways and Northrop Grumman.
The board additionally consists of teachers and politicians, together with the governor of Maryland.
The board is to convene for the primary time in early Could and supply suggestions for the secure adoption of AI “within the important companies Individuals rely on day-after-day,” it stated.
The brand new advisory board will assist authorities fight AI-related disruptions which will “influence nationwide or financial safety, public well being, or security,” the Division of Homeland Safety (DHS) stated in an announcement launched Friday.
President Joe Biden directed division Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas to arrange the 22-member board.
Mayorkas stated that whereas AI is a transformative software, “it presents actual dangers.”
“The Board will assist DHS keep forward of evolving threats posed by hostile nation-state actors and reinforce our nationwide safety,” the assertion stated.
AI could also be utilized by unfriendly forces to allow bigger scale, quicker assaults towards targets like pipelines, railways and different essential infrastructure, it stated.
“Synthetic Intelligence is essentially the most transformative expertise of our time, and we should guarantee it’s deployed safely and responsibly,” Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella stated within the assertion.
Different high-powered members named to the board embrace the CEOs of Adobe, Alphabet, Superior Micro Units, Cisco, IBM, Nvidia, Delta Airways and Northrop Grumman.
The board additionally consists of teachers and politicians, together with the governor of Maryland.
The board is to convene for the primary time in early Could and supply suggestions for the secure adoption of AI “within the important companies Individuals rely on day-after-day,” it stated.
