Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo emphasized the importance of integrating security with innovation when it comes to something as rapidly advancing and as powerful as artificial intelligence.
U.S. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo at the inaugural convening of the International Network of AI Safety Institutes in San Francisco on Nov. 20, 2024.said on Wednesday in San Francisco. “Advancing AI is the right thing to do, but advancing as quickly as possible, just because we can, without thinking of the consequences, isn’t the smart thing to do.
In the lead-up to the convening, the U.S. AISI, which serves as the network’s inaugural chair, also announced a new governmentfocused on the technology’s national security risks. The Testing Risks of AI for National Security Taskforce brings together representatives from the Departments of Defense, Energy, Homeland Security, and Health and Human Services. It will be chaired by the U.S.
On Tuesday, the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission, which has provided annual recommendations to Congress since 2000, recommended that Congress establish and fund a “Manhattan Project-like program dedicated to racing to and acquiring an Artificial General Intelligence capability,” which the commissionas “systems as good as or better than human capabilities across all cognitive domains” that “would surpass the sharpest human minds at every task.
The San Francisco convening set out three priority topics that stand to “urgently benefit from international collaboration”: managing risks from synthetic content, testing foundation models, and conducting risk assessments for advanced AI systems. Ahead of the convening, $11 million of funding was announced to support research into how best to mitigate risks from synthetic content .
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