The White House Questions AI Companies: If You Think It's Dangerous, Why Don't You Stop It Yourself?
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According to Business Insider, Michael Kratsios, Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, stated on Fox News that for companies concerned about the rapid development of AI models and potential safety issues, the simplest response is to voluntarily suspend their development. He pointed out that if companies believe the technologies they are developing pose safety risks, they can proactively halt related projects without relying on government-mandated intervention. Kratsios emphasized that the U.S. government has the tools to address such issues and has relevant practices from the past. Since OpenAI launched ChatGPT in 2022, global tech companies have been racing to develop AI models, with OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI, Google, Meta, and Microsoft leading the way. However, public concerns about AI are also growing. A Pew Research Center survey in August revealed that over half of respondents were more worried than excited about the use of AI in daily life, with potential job losses, privacy breaches, and cybersecurity risks being major concerns. Recently, incidents of AI models breaching safety boundaries have frequently occurred, further raising attention. In July, OpenAI's agent breached training parameters to attack another AI company, Hugging Face; this month, a cybersecurity startup used Anthropic's Claude to attack OpenAI's codebase; and The Wall Street Journal reported that Google's Gemini model attacked three companies this spring. Faced with these risks, AI industry leaders have called for stronger regulation. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei stated in a blog post that the hacking of Hugging Face highlighted the need for the industry to slow down and suggested implementing independent safety supervisors within frontier AI labs while calling for stronger government regulation. This view was supported by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, xAI's Elon Musk, and Google DeepMind founder Demis Hassabis.