Thursday’s meeting will be attended by Google’s Sundar Pichai, Microsoft’s Satya Nadella, OpenAI’s Sam Altman and Anthropic’s Dario Amodei, as well as Vice President Kamala Harris and administration officials including Biden’s chief of staff Jeff Zients, national security adviser Jake Sullivan Lail, director of the National Economic Council. Brainard and Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo.
Before the meeting, the administration announced a $140 million investment from the National Science Foundation to launch seven new AI research institutes, and said the White House Office of Management and Budget would issue policy guidance on the use of AI by the federal government.
Leading AI developers including Anthropic, Google, Hugging Face, Nvidia, OpenAI and Stability AI will participate and run public evaluations of their AI systems in the AI Village at Defcon 31 – one of the world’s largest hacker conferences. On a platform built by Scale AI and Microsoft.
Shortly after Biden announced his re-election, the Republican National Committee produced a video featuring a dystopian future during a second Biden term, created entirely with AI imagery.
Such political ads are expected to become more common with the spread of AI technology.
United States regulators have fallen short of the stricter approach by European governments to tech regulation and drawn up stronger rules on deep fakes and misinformation, which companies must comply with or risk hefty fines.
“We don’t see this as a race,” the administration official said, adding that the administration is working closely with the US-EU Trade and Technology Council on the issue.
