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OpenAI and Other Tech Giants Will Have to Warn the US Government When They Start New AI Projects


The Biden administration is using the Defense Production Act to require companies to inform the Commerce Department when they start training high-powered AI algorithms.

The Biden administration is preparing to use the Defense Production Act to compel tech companies to inform the government when they train an AI model using a significant amount of computing power. Raimondo’s announcement comes on the same day that Google touted the release of new data highlighting the prowess of its latest artificial intelligence model, Gemini, showing it surpassing OpenAI’s GPT-4, which powers ChatGPT, on some industry benchmarks. Samuel Hammond, senior economist at the Foundation for American Innovation, a think tank, says a key challenge for the US government is that a model does not necessarily need to surpass a compute threshold in training to be potentially dangerous.

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