Apple on Friday joined more than a dozen major tech companies pledging to abide by the Biden administration’s guidelines for the development of artificial intelligence (AI), according to the White House, which is looking to mitigate AI-related risks.
“Today, the administration announced that Apple has signed onto the voluntary commitments, further cementing these commitments as cornerstones of responsible AI innovation,” the White House said in a July 26 press release, which also gave an update on federal agency actions at the 270-day mark after President Joe Biden’s executive order establishing new standards for AI safety and security.
With the move, Apple joins 15 other companies, including Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft, and OpenAI, in pledging to develop AI to include granting government access to the test results of the companies’ AI models to assess biases and security risks….