More than 200 companies and entities have agreed to form a new consortium designed to enable the safe deployment of generative artificial intelligence in the United States, Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo announced Thursday.
The AI Safety Institute Consortium’s members will include leading AI developers such as OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, and Microsoft. They’ll also be joined by Apple, Amazon, Nvidia, Intel, and several other companies. This group, alongside other members of government agencies and nonprofit groups, will be working together to help enact a number of high-priority actions listed in President Joe Biden’s October executive order on AI and prioritize safety for the technology.
“The U.S. government has a significant role to play in setting the standards and developing the tools we need to mitigate the risks and harness the immense potential of artificial intelligence,” Raimondo said in her announcement.
This consortium will create “the largest collection of test and evaluation teams established to date,” the announcement said, in order to help establish guardrails and safe uses for the technology. The organization is expected to create “red team” testing standards, which are used to test the cybersecurity of the technology and ensure the devices are safe, by the end of the summer.
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Vice President Kamala Harris announced the AI Safety Institute in November during the United Kingdom’s global summit on AI.
The White House announced that Elizabeth Kelly, a former economic adviser to President Barack Obama, will lead the USAISI. Kelly is credited with playing a key role in the implementation of the “fiduciary rule,” a regulation imposed by the Obama Labor Department that required retirement advisers to provide advice that is in their clients’ best interest. The rule met massive pushback from the financial industry and was later struck down in federal court. She went on to serve as chief of staff at the startup United Income from 2016 to 2019, then joined Capital One as vice president of growth.
