White House: AI companies need to report safety tests to government

The White House says “builders of the strongest AI methods” will now have to report AI safety check outcomes to the Department of Commerce within the wake of an govt order issued by President Biden geared toward “managing the risks” of the know-how. 

The information comes as Deputy Chief of Staff Bruce Reed is convening the White House AI Council on Monday, consisting of “top officials from a wide range of federal departments and agencies” who’ve reported finishing 90-day actions and advancing different directives tasked by the order Biden signed final October, in accordance to the White House. 

Among these actions was that they “[u]sed Defense Production Act authorities to compel developers of the most powerful AI systems to report vital information, especially AI safety test results, to the Department of Commerce,” the White House stated. 

“These companies now must share this information on the most powerful AI systems, and they must likewise report large computing clusters able to train these systems,” the White House added. 

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The White House introduced Monday that companies which are engaged on the “most powerful AI systems” should now report “AI safety test results” to the Department of Commerce. (Yasin Ozturk/Anadolu Agency by way of Getty Images)

The White House added the order is targeted on “assessing AI’s risks for critical infrastructure, and hindering foreign actors’ efforts to develop AI for harmful purposes.” 

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President Biden speaks on the “Sunday Lunch” occasion on the Brookland Baptist Banquet Center, a part of the Brookland Baptist Church, in West Columbia, South Carolina, on Sunday, Jan. 28. He issued the chief order on AI final October. (AP/Jacquelyn Martin)

Ben Buchanan, the White House particular adviser on AI, informed The Associated Press that the U.S. government needs “to know AI systems are safe before they’re released to the public – the president has been very clear that companies need to meet that bar.” 

Tesla CEO Elon Musk arrives for a U.S. Senate bipartisan Artificial Intelligence Insight Forum on the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on Sept. 13, 2023.

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“We know that AI has transformative effects and potential,” Buchanan added. “We’re not trying to upend the apple cart there, but we are trying to make sure the regulators are prepared to manage this technology.”