AI Companies Will Be Required to Report Safety Tests to U.S. Government

The Biden Administration will start implementing a new requirement for the developers of major artificial intelligence systems to disclose their safety test results to the government. The White House AI Council is scheduled to meet Monday to review progress made on the executive order that President Joe Biden signed three months ago to manage the fast-evolving technology. Read More: Why Biden's AI Executive Order Only Goes So Far Chief among the 90-day goals from the order was a mandate under the Defense Production Act that AI companies share vital information with the Commerce Department, including safety tests. Ben Buchanan, the White House special adviser on AI, said in an interview that the government wants "to know AI systems are safe before they're released to the public -- the president has been very clear that companies need to meet that bar." The software companies are committed to a set of categories for the safety tests, but companies do not yet have to comply with a common standard on the tests.