Apple has joined several other tech companies in agreeing to abide by voluntary AI safeguards laid out by the Biden administration. Those who make the pledge have committed to abide by eight guidelines related to safety, security and social responsibility, including flagging societal risks such as biases; testing for vulnerabilities, watermarking AI-generated images and audio; and sharing trust and safety details with the government and other companies. Amazon, Google, Microsoft and OpenAI were among the initial adoptees of the pact, which the White House announced last July. The voluntary agreement, which is not enforceable, will expire after Congress passes laws to regulate AI. Since the guidelines were announced, Apple unveiled a suite of AI-powered features under the umbrella name of Apple Intelligence.

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.