Google, Meta, Microsoft, OpenAI and more agree to voluntary AI safeguards

Several of the top American companies developing AI have agreed to work with the U.S. government and commit to several principles to ensure public trust in AI, the White House said Friday. Amazon, Anthropic, Google, Inflection, Meta, Microsoft, and OpenAI all signed off on the commitments to make AI safe, secure, and trustworthy. In May, the Biden administration had said that it would meet with leading AI developers to ensure that they were consistent with U.S. policy. The commitments are not binding, and there are no penalties for failing to adhere to them. The policies can't retroactively affect AI systems that have already been deployed, either -- one of the provisions says that the companies will commit to testing the AI for security vulnerabilities, both internally and externally, before releasing it.