Biden secures voluntary AI safety commitments from seven major tech companies

The Biden administration announces voluntary commitments from seven leading AI companies, Amazon, Anthropic, Google, Inflection, Meta, Microsoft, and OpenAI, to manage AI risks to safety, security, and trust. The companies pledge to conduct internal and external red-team security testing of AI systems before release, share information on safety risks with governments and academia, develop technical mechanisms to identify AI-generated content (watermarking), and prioritize research on societal risks. Biden hosts company executives at the White House for the announcement. The voluntary commitments are a precursor to the landmark AI executive order signed October 30, 2023, and mark the first major US government effort to govern AI development.