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Apple joins tech giants to adopt voluntary AI safeguards established by US President Biden
- Biden’s executive order last year required powerful AI systems to submit to testing to be eligible for purchase by the federal government
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Apple is the latest company to agree to a set of voluntary safeguards for artificial intelligence crafted by US President Joe Biden’s administration as it tries to guide the development of the emerging technology and encourage firms to protect consumers.
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The administration announced on Friday that the technology giant is joining the ranks of OpenAI, Amazon.com, Alphabet, Meta Platforms, Microsoft and others in committing to test their AI systems for any discriminatory tendencies, security flaws or national security risks.
The principles call for companies to transparently share the results of those tests with governments, civil society and academia – and to report any vulnerabilities.
The pledge comes as Apple is set to incorporate OpenAI’s chatbot application, ChatGPT, into its voice-command assistant on iPhones as part of a new suite of AI features – a partnership between a tech powerhouse and one of the most influential artificial intelligence start-ups.
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