White House Announces New Rules Requiring Tech Companies to Inform Government of AI Projects
Summary
In remarks given at a Stanford University Hoover Institute event, Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo stated that the Biden administration is preparing to use the Defense Production Act (“DPA”) to make tech companies inform the U.S. government of AI models trained using a significant amount of computing power. The responses to this DPA survey are intended to give the U.S. government access to key information about some of the most sensitive projects inside AI companies. The companies will also have to provide information on safety testing being done on their AI products. The new rules are being implemented as part of the AI EO, which requires reporting the amount of computing power being used, information on the ownership of data being fed to the model and details of safety testing.
