One year ago, seven leading AI companies—Amazon, Anthropic, Google, Inflection, Meta, Microsoft, and OpenAI—committed with the White House to a set voluntary commitments on how to develop AI in a safe and trustworthy way.
The eight commitments included promises to do things like improve the testing and transparency around AI systems, and share information on potential harms and risks.
On the first anniversary of the voluntary commitments, MIT Technology Review asked the AI companies that signed the commitments for details on their work so far. Their replies show that the tech sector has made some welcome progress—with some pretty big caveats. Read the full story.
—Melissa Heikkilä
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