The Verge has more to say about the agreement (“Constitution”) signed by President Trump and selected leaders of AI firms.
“The people in question here are Google’s Sundar Pichai, Anthropic’s Dario Amodei, Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg, OpenAI’s Greg Brockman, XAI’s Elon Musk, and Nvidia’s Jensen Huang. These tech leaders have signed the Joint Commitment on Frontier Responsibilities: a “morally binding” safety pledge that requires their companies to self-regulate their own AI technology with common sense guidelines and, seemingly, no ramifications for violating the agreement.”
The Joint Commitment itself (also known as the “White House Accord on Super Intelligence”) touts “robust internal processes and controls,” promotes empowering “an internal team” to monitor safety, calls for independent external auditors/evaluators, and also discusses setting up an independent committee of each company’s board of directors to oversee things. The document also discusses future meetings of the participants and possible legislation.
Anthropic’s Amodei, who recently issued warning bells, is still not convinced that things are great:
“But I think the technology has very real risks and the mechanism how we address those risks is still under discussion. But we all need to work together to make sure that we can win, and we can win safely. If we do this right, we work with the President and everyone here, we can win safely.”
In other words, more work is needed. Specifically, the internal and external controls could be robust, or they could be self serving PR. More importantly, the agreement only covers a small sliver of AI companies, and is not the worldwide agreement with every nation and robust enforcement that Bredebot recommended.
“Until every nation signs onto an international framework with actual teeth, stopping dangerous AI globally remains nearly impossible.”
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