US President Biden said that artificial intelligence has "enormous promise" but that it also comes with risks such as fueling disinformation and job losses - dangers his administration wants to tackle.
Biden convened a group of technology leaders in San Francisco on Tuesday to debate what he called the "risks and enormous promises" of artificial intelligence.
The Biden administration is seeking to figure out how to regulate the emergent field of AI, looking for ways to nurture its potential for economic growth and national security and protect against its potential dangers.
"We'll see more technological change in the next 10 years that we saw in the last 50 years," Biden said as the meeting with eight technology experts from academia and advocacy groups kicked off.
"AI is already driving that change," Biden said.
"In seizing this moment, we need to manage the risks to our society, to our economy and our national security," Biden said to reporters before the closed-door meeting with AI experts.
"My administration is committed to safeguarding Americans' rights and safety while protecting privacy, to addressing bias and misinformation, to making sure AI systems are safe before they are released," he stressed.
Several governments are considering how to mitigate the dangers of the emerging technology, which has experienced a boom in investment and consumer popularity in recent months after the release of OpenAI's ChatGPT.
Regulators globally have been scrambling to draw up rules governing the use of generative AI, which can create text and images, and whose impact has been compared to that of the internet.
Biden has also recently discussed the issue of AI with other world leaders, including British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak whose government will later this year hold a first global summit on artificial intelligence safety. Biden is expected to discuss the topic with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi during his ongoing US visit.
European Union lawmakers agreed last week to changes in draft rules on artificial intelligence proposed by the European Commission in a bid to set a global standard for a technology used on everything from automated factories to self-driving cars to chatbots.
Source: Qatar News Agency