Right this moment, Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA), chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, despatched a sequence of open letters to the CEOs of AI firms, together with OpenAI, Google, Meta, Microsoft and Anthropic, calling on them to place safety on the “forefront” of AI growth.

“I write at this time concerning the necessity to prioritize safety within the design and growth of synthetic intelligence (AI) techniques. As firms like yours make fast developments in AI, we should acknowledge the safety dangers inherent on this know-how and guarantee AI growth and adoption proceeds in a accountable and safe means,” Warner wrote in every letter. 

Extra broadly, the open letters articulate legislators’ rising issues over the safety dangers launched by generative AI.   

Safety in focus

This comes simply weeks after NSA cybersecurity director Rob Joyce warned that ChatGPT will make hackers that use AI “way more efficient,” and simply over a month after the U.S. Chamber of Commerce known as for regulation of AI know-how to mitigate the “nationwide safety implications” of those options. 

The highest AI-specific points Warner cited within the letter had been integrity of the info provide chain (guaranteeing the origin, high quality and accuracy of enter knowledge), tampering with coaching knowledge (aka data-poisoning assaults), and adversarial examples (the place customers enter inputs to fashions that deliberately trigger them to make errors). 

Warner additionally known as for AI firms to extend transparency over the safety controls applied inside their environments, requesting an summary of how every group approaches safety, how techniques are monitored and audited, and what safety requirements they’re adhering to, similar to NIST’s AI danger administration framework.