“AI can help deal with some very difficult challenges like disease and climate change,” Biden said, according to a transcript provided by the White House. “But we also have to address the potential risks to our society, to our economy, to our national security.”
Last week, a group of AI researchers, pundits, and critics called for a six-month pause in the development of AI systems “more powerful” than OpenAI’s GPT-4. GPT-4 is a multimodal AI model that can analyze text and images and generate human-like responses. That letter, which has proven controversial among AI experts, called for potential government action if necessary and “new and capable regulatory authorities dedicated to AI.”