Top AI companies agree to work together toward transparency and safety, White House says

Seven leading artificial intelligence companies have agreed to a handful of industry best practices, a first step toward more meaningful regulation, the White House announced Thursday.

Seven leading artificial intelligence companies have agreed to a handful of industry best practices, a first step toward more meaningful regulation, the White House announced Thursday.

The companies — Amazon, Anthropic, Google, Inflection, Meta, Microsoft and OpenAI — have agreed to the principles that include security, transparency with the public and testing of their products internally before debuting them to the public.

In a call with reporters Wednesday evening previewing the announcement, a White House official, who requested to not be named as part of the terms of the call, said that President Joe Biden will eventually sign an executive order more strongly regulating AI, though officials are still working out the details.

“The White House is actively developing executive action to govern the use of AI for the president’s consideration,” the official said. “This is a high priority for the president.”

Top executives from the companies involved will also be meeting with the White House on Friday, including Microsoft President Brad Smith, Google and Alphabet President of Global Affairs Kent Walker, Amazon Web Services CEO Adam Selipsky, Meta President of Global Affairs Nick Clegg, OpenAI President Greg Brockman, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, and Inflection AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman.