An advisory committee being formed by the government to focus on the safe use of artificial intelligence (AI) includes some of the industry's biggest companies.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Microsoft's Satya Nadella, Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai, and Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang have all reportedly joined the Artificial Intelligence Safety and Security Committee. ing. wall street journal. The group will work with the Department of Homeland Security on how to leverage AI within America's critical infrastructure, and among its missions will be to assist everything from power grid operators to transportation and manufacturing sectors. This includes compiling recommendations to protect against AI-driven attacks.
Other members of the board include Delta Air Lines CEO Ed Bustin and Northrup Grumman CEO Kathy Worden, as well as the governor of Maryland and the mayor of Seattle. . It will be chaired by Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas. The Board of Directors will initially meet in May and then quarterly thereafter.
The board is the result of a Biden administration executive order last year focused on regulating AI development. According to a description on the Department of Homeland Security's website, the committee will include “private sector and government AI experts advising the Secretary and the critical infrastructure community” and will include “security, resiliency, and It will provide “information and recommendations to improve incident response.” Deploying AI in critical infrastructure. ”
The same order requires AI companies to notify the government if they develop systems that could pose a “significant risk to national security, national economic security, or national public health and safety.”
Of course, AI has many potential benefits in healthcare and safety, but it also comes with risks. “Failure to deploy AI safely, reliably and responsibly in critical infrastructure can have devastating consequences,” Mayorkas said. journal.