There’s an old military adage: “never volunteer for anything.” At first blush, it might seem downright unpatriotic. But perhaps this saying was coined by an officer who spent too much time in Washington.
Last month, the Biden administration marshalled executives from Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Meta, OpenAI, Anthropic, and Inflection to the White House to sign a “voluntary” agreement that, among other things, would subject their AI systems to audits before public release and require data sharing with the government and academics.
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