U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris is set to meet with OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, and Anthropic about the responsible development of artificial intelligence.
The meeting will be held on Thursday.
- According to a White House statement, U.S. Vice President Harris will address the need for safeguards that can mitigate AI’s potential risks and emphasize the importance of ethical and trustworthy innovation.
- Other officials that will participate in the meeting are Gina Raimondo, Jeff Zients, Jake Sullivan, and Arati Prabhakar.
- Representatives from Anthropic have confirmed their participation, while Google, Microsoft, and OpenAI have yet to comment.
- Geoffrey Hinton, also called the “the godfather of AI,” left his position at Google partly to share his concerns about the potential threat of AI, according to a report.
- Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla, SpaceX, and Twitter, was one of more than 27,000 people to sign a letter in March that called on AI labs to pause their development for six months.
