President Biden’s top science advisor claims that an urgent push to erect barriers is being driven by awareness of the dangers AI poses.
Los Angeles — According to Arati Prabhakar, director of the White House Office of Science, Technology, and Policy, who spoke to CyberScoop on the sidelines of the DEF CON security conference, the Biden administration is accelerating work to create an executive order to address risks posed by artificial intelligence and give guidelines to federal agencies on how it might be used.
Prabhakar stated that as generative AI tools like ChatGPT have become more accessible, President Biden has grown more concerned about the technology. The administration is currently working quickly to create an executive order that will give advice to federal agencies on how to use AI.
The seriousness with which federal agencies are approaching AI regulation, according to Prabhakar, has given her hope. “It’s not just the normal process accelerated — it’s just a completely different process,” she said.”
“Their departments and agencies are really stepping up because they know it’s serious and what the potential is.”
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After touring the DEF CON AI village, where tens of thousands of hackers are taking part in a red-teaming exercise to find flaws in the most advanced AI models, Prabhakar spoke to media. Throughout the conference, participants have waited in line for hours to get a chance to spend 50 minutes at a laptop trying to get the computers to produce offensive stuff.
A series of hearing sessions have been organized by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, a Democrat from New York, to inform senators on the technology and create the groundwork for a significant legislative effort to regulate AI.
Leading AI companies recently made a number of voluntary safety commitments, and a future executive order is anticipated to offer more instructions on how to utilize the technology responsibly.
This week, it was revealed by the White House and the Defense Advanced Projects Research Agency that a competition will be held to employ AI to protect computer systems and find flaws in open source software.
According to Prabhakar, authorities currently have a rare opportunity to capitalize on the advantages and control the dangers of a potentially transformative technology.
Today, “many of the information technology dreams that we all had have come true,” according to Prabhakar. “But some nightmares have come with that,” said Prabhakar, adding that the federal government feels compelled to install guardrails as a result of a rising awareness of the risks posed by technology.