U.S. President Joe Biden stated that "it is not yet clear whether artificial intelligence entails risks," emphasizing that "technology companies bear the responsibility to ensure the safety of their products before releasing them."
Biden explained to his council of advisers on science and technology yesterday that "artificial intelligence can help in treating diseases and combating climate change, but it is also important to address its potential risks to society, national security, and the economy." He reiterated that "social media has already shown the damage that high-tech can cause without proper safeguards. In the absence of safeguards, we see the impact on mental health, self-image, emotions, and despair, especially among youth." He called on Congress for "privacy legislation to impose restrictions on the personal data collected by technology companies, to ban targeted advertisements to children, and to prioritize health and safety in product development."
It is noteworthy that artificial intelligence has become a hot topic for policymakers. The Center for Artificial Intelligence and Digital Policy, which focuses on technology ethics, requested the U.S. Federal Trade Commission to prevent OpenAI from launching new commercial versions of the GPT-4 technology, which has amazed users with its human-like response capabilities.
Billionaire Elon Musk and a group of artificial intelligence experts and executives have called in an open letter for a six-month pause on the development of systems more powerful than the recently launched ChatGPT-4 by OpenAI, citing potential risks such applications pose to society.
Last month, Google entered the race with the public release of its chatbot Bard, seeking to attract subscribers and gain feedback on the program as it competes with Microsoft's ChatGPT in the field of artificial intelligence. Google describes Bard as an experience that allows for collaboration with generative artificial intelligence, a technology based on previous data to create content rather than merely recognizing and identifying it.
