Microsoft Corp. is calling for a new US agency to regulate artificial intelligence and licensing requirements to operate the most powerful AI tools, company President Brad Smith said Thursday.
“We would benefit from a new agency,” Smith said in a speech in Washington. “That is how we will ensure that humanity remains in control of technology.” Although that proposal has sparked conversations on Capitol Hill, it is still far from being turned into legislation. Calls in recent years to regulate social media went nowhere in Congress.Smith also said that rapidly developing AI technology must be transparent, with developers partnering with government and academic researchers to address societal challenges that will emerge.
“The government would then ensure that operators test high-risk systems regularly to ensure that the system safety measures are effective.” “There are days when those of us who might know more about a technical field get up and see something that we quite rightly would want to point out is not likely to work the way that people who wrote it actually intended.”released in January by the National Institute of Standards and Technology, which is focused on how AI technology is used — and the risk level of that application — rather than how it’s developed.