2024-07-29: Apple agrees to stick by Biden administration’s voluntary [sic] AI safeguards
“It’s joining more than a dozen other companies in making the pledge, including Amazon, Google, Microsoft and OpenAI. … [Among the safeguards are] social responsibility, including flagging societal risks such as biases … and sharing trust and safety details with the government and other companies“
See also Biden-Harris administration’s press release from 2024-07-26.
This is an example of how Democrat officials coerce tech companies to implement Democrat political agenda. Then they deny government action.
2023-05-04: Biden administration unveils an AI plan ahead of meeting with tech CEOs (CNN)
2023-07-21: Pressured by Biden, A.I. Companies Agree to Guardrails on New Tools (NY Times). The main thrust is to “protect democracy,” which actually means to protect Democrats. Secondary goals include promoting climate cult and bias studies:
“’We must be cleareyed and vigilant about the threats emerging from emerging technologies that can pose — don’t have to but can pose — to our democracy and our values,’ Mr. Biden said in brief remarks”
“As part of the safeguards, the companies agreed to … research on bias and privacy concerns … development of tools to fight societal challenges like climate change…”
“Seven leading A.I. companies in the United States [Amazon, Anthropic, Google, Inflection, Meta, Microsoft and OpenAI] have agreed to voluntary safeguards on the technology’s development, the White House announced on Friday…”
“For the companies, the standards described Friday serve two purposes: as an effort to forestall, or shape, legislative and regulatory moves with self-policing, and a signal that they are dealing with the new technology thoughtfully and proactively.”
First published on 2023-08-11.