Stop Insulting Artificial Intelligence Users

The White House recently brought seven companies together to make a series of voluntary promises to protect artificial intelligence (AI) users. The companies — Amazon, Anthropic, Google, Inflection, Meta, Microsoft, and OpenAI — have all agreed to a series of asks to address many of the risks posed by (AI). The promises consist of investments in cybersecurity, discrimination research, and a new watermarking system informing users when content is AI-generated. In a call with reporters Thursday, a White House official said that the Biden administration was currently working on an executive order to address some of the risks posed by AI. The official declined to give specifics but said that the order will not be watermarked to inform users that the content is or is not AI-generated.

The likelihood of anything meaningful happening here, except for huge profits for the companies, is miniscule since some of these players are the same ones that promised to protect social media platform users from bad actors online…a promise largely ignored or, at best, addressed ineffectively.